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Vor einem Tag · Voltaire called Cicero "the greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers" and even staged a play based on Cicero's role in the Catilinarian conspiracy, called Rome Sauvée, ou Catilina, to "make young people who go to the theatre acquainted with Cicero."
- Quintus Tullius Cicero (brother)
Vor einem Tag · Voltaire's 1759 biography gave 18th-century Russians a man of the Enlightenment, while Alexander Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman" poem of 1833 gave a powerful romantic image of a creator-god. Slavophiles in mid-19th century deplored Peter's westernization of Russia.
- 2 November 1721 – 8 February 1725
- Natalya Naryshkina
Vor 2 Tagen · In philosophy and theology, Leibniz is most noted for his optimism, i.e. his conclusion that our world is, in a qualified sense, the best possible world that God could have created, a view sometimes lampooned by other thinkers, such as Voltaire in his satirical novella Candide.
Vor einem Tag · In Greek ἀκακία means guilelessness, naïveté, innocence, without malice. But it was also a cylindrical purple silk roll containing dust and held by the Byzantine emperors during ceremonies to remind them that all men must die. 6 Voltaire may have chosen the word “Akakia” because of its Greek meaning.
Vor einem Tag · In 1733 Voltaire introduced him to a French audience as the "father" of the scientific method, an understanding which had become widespread by the 1750s. In the 19th century his emphasis on induction was revived and developed by William Whewell , among others.
Vor einem Tag · Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne.
Vor 2 Tagen · Anarchism portal. Politics portal. v. t. e. Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage, and the state, as well as the domination of religion over sexuality and over women's lives, all of which she saw as interconnected.
