Who Was Voltaire? AP Euro Bit by Bit #26

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  • @conwaysean4
    @conwaysean4 6 років тому +57

    If you were a Sergeant in the military, your name would be Sergeant Sargent.

  • @hinothingelse5304
    @hinothingelse5304 2 роки тому +3

    This video really summarized Voltair well!!!!!! Love this keep it up
    XoXo

  • @henkknaap8781
    @henkknaap8781 4 роки тому +4

    We still need people like Voltaire !

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275 4 місяці тому

    Brilliant ! Thanks for sharing this

  • @mariettestabel275
    @mariettestabel275 4 місяці тому

    Brilliant ! Thanks for sharing this💫

  • @KimI-ib5ji
    @KimI-ib5ji 5 років тому +4

    Nice summary of Voltaire, thank you!

  • @mikedevlin8283
    @mikedevlin8283 8 років тому +9

    Thank you for your videos!! I'm studying for my Midterm right now and this is helping so much!!!

  • @kaylakerstetter7879
    @kaylakerstetter7879 5 років тому +3

    This just clarified everything! Thank you so much!!!

  • @Ellen_sanyang
    @Ellen_sanyang 5 років тому +2

    This is definitely gonna give me an A.... Paul you are a life saver

  • @9ZenMedia
    @9ZenMedia 5 років тому

    Fantastic channel, so contextual for such a short runtime.

  • @ThemarkofEmboar1
    @ThemarkofEmboar1 7 років тому +5

    I have a test today over the Scientific Revolution and enlightenment periods and this helped me so much thank you

  • @writeract2
    @writeract2 9 років тому +4

    Well-done and clear. Thank u!

  • @guillermozalles9303
    @guillermozalles9303 3 роки тому

    Very nice. Much apreciated!

  • @constanzamurad3452
    @constanzamurad3452 Рік тому

    Me gustó mucho su explicación, palabras claras y una charla. Amena. Mil gracias

  • @gasemkooravand7623
    @gasemkooravand7623 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for ur video
    Voltaire gave the solution in the last chapter of camdide
    "We should cultivate our garden"
    And
    To not involve in other ppl affaires
    Just focus in ur own affaires and concerns
    Dont waste ur precious time with public affaires
    This is ☝️the solution from voltaire point of view
    Regards
    🌷

  • @sajeelashumat
    @sajeelashumat 2 роки тому +1

    Hey Paul I just found your videos about enlightenment and I find all of these very good...I am from Pakistan and am studying about western political thoughts...I couldn't understand the philosophy of Hegel please can you make a video about his political philosophy ???

  • @tristanmen5262
    @tristanmen5262 8 років тому +7

    Thank you working on a resume for voltaire.

  • @anthonyliberati3200
    @anthonyliberati3200 8 років тому +11

    I appreciate this! It helped me out so much!

  • @olcotttheosophy
    @olcotttheosophy 2 роки тому

    Voltaire is a out-standing light house of humanity for the people who are travelling in the sea of superstitious/ religious feelings.

  • @eimanshmaun
    @eimanshmaun 3 місяці тому

    thanks alot

  • @longliveavalon
    @longliveavalon 5 років тому

    I'm reading "Voltaire's Bastards" by John Raulston Saul. Kind of a hard read for me. Have u read it? Thank you Paul.

  • @lionhartd138
    @lionhartd138 4 роки тому +1

    I thought I was taught that Voltaire was born into enough wealth so that he never had to work. Does that fit? Am I confusing him with some other philosopher?

  • @enmanuelramon7217
    @enmanuelramon7217 9 років тому +2

    Good video!

  • @sarahalizada3701
    @sarahalizada3701 3 роки тому

    thanks :)

  • @mistyjkincaid7210
    @mistyjkincaid7210 5 років тому

    wats public assistants

  • @katelynns4887
    @katelynns4887 4 роки тому

    I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it... Voltaire didn’t say this but I love this quote

  • @hyperhybrid7230
    @hyperhybrid7230 5 років тому +2

    Napoleonic code - Freedom of Religion

  • @gknoy8259
    @gknoy8259 6 років тому +1

    These are the clichés generally tossed out about Voltaire, but a lot of the details are untrue. It seems Candide is the only work people generally know in the States, but it was a mere footnote to his contemporaries, hardly ever mentioned. Of far more impact was (first) his "Letters on England", (which you cite re 30 religions). Huge impact on Rousseau according to his own "Confessions", on Diderot and that entire generation, 20 years younger than Voltaire. Benjamin Franklin told Noah Webster that Voltaire's "Treatise on Toleration" had almost erased all bigotry in Europe (not just France or Catholics). His "Philosophical Dictionary", "Republican Ideas" do offer solutions and his "Commentary on Beccaria" (on the laws) was far more popular and widely read than Beccaria's own book. Just as Voltaire's "Elements of Newton" got Newton's theories widely accepted at last, which they were not before, outside of England. French was the international language then.
    And no, Voltaire was not fond of "enlightened despots". I recommend Peter Gay's "Voltaire - the Poet as Realist" on all that. Voltaire had lived under one in Prussia for 3 years, then under a so-called "republic" in Geneva for 28 years. What mattered to him was good laws that apply to everyone - including kings, parliaments or presidents - well-enforced. As he had already said in his "Letters on England" decades before all that.
    Just meaning to be helpful, not critical! Good vid otherwise!

  • @8ballstreet
    @8ballstreet 4 роки тому +3

    What do you mean he didn't offer any solutions?! You said it yourself that he suggested having an enlightened ruler so we don't have the herd-mentality offered my democracy and who allows freedom of speech (a solution to intolerance), freedom of the press, zero church power over the people, as well as other rights to combat the various issues he noticed. So that's not a problem with Voltaire, but a problem with your own inability to deduce what you said yourself.

  • @remainedunnamed1695
    @remainedunnamed1695 5 років тому

    National Treasure: Isaacs gone missing!

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ Рік тому

    Watched all of it 8:16

  • @Tuidi
    @Tuidi 5 років тому

    saved me!

  • @bearhall4919
    @bearhall4919 4 роки тому +1

    So voltaire was a predecessor to George Carlin... got it.

  • @rockbore
    @rockbore 7 років тому +1

    Good vid, just a few points. Voltaire may have offered some solutions in candide afterall. Chapter 18 and 19 in Eldorado show an alternative society that perhaps could rival the republic. Here Voltaire borrows the Inca Culture to some extent as a model of the best society. Here all the problems so well expressed in the rest of Candide ou Optimisme are solved. How? by a single religion, strangely enough.
    I expected you to make more of Voltaire' s fortune thanks to Decroix. Also you might have lauded his praised a bit more, he was afterall quite an unusually gifted intellect, aside from plays.

    • @gasemkooravand7623
      @gasemkooravand7623 2 роки тому

      Voltaire's solution
      We should cultivate our own garden
      Taking care of our own buiseness
      and
      Ignore the media
      Regards

    • @rockbore
      @rockbore 2 роки тому +1

      @@gasemkooravand7623 The Catholic Church would be delighted with your interpretation of Candide's message.
      I think Candide found some solice in the simple life after all the trials and tribulation visited upon him and each and every friend.
      However, the book is widely credited with formenting dissent in France and abroad.
      The people thanked Voltaire for his efforts, and he was literally held high above the victorious crowds of commoners into Paris, in 1792.
      That aside, Voltaire was a famous petitioner, interventionist, and a champion of the oppressed in many arenas.
      I think the tranquil garden image is too often presented as the final word of Voltaire, when it is really just a pleasant way to end an otherwise disturbing endichment of a society sorely in need of improvement.

  • @cmscms123456
    @cmscms123456 Рік тому

    Gee, some of his cool quotes would have been nice

  • @reggielrambo
    @reggielrambo 7 років тому

    Bro u studdered soooooo much but appreciate it ig our history teacher is making us watch this

  • @mistyjkincaid7210
    @mistyjkincaid7210 5 років тому

    wrong address

  • @jpr3665
    @jpr3665 7 років тому +3

    Will Durant offers a better account.

  • @mikewilliams258
    @mikewilliams258 5 років тому

    "de Voltaire" not "du Voltaire" - make an effort!

  • @psallen5099
    @psallen5099 4 роки тому

    Voltaire was against religion in general, especially Christianity. When he said “get rid of the wretch” he was referring to Jesus.