Tag Archives: Voltaire

Should we care about the Unborn?

Posted on February 12, 2025 by odeboyz

Life is risky Let us consider a historical example. People living in Nagasaki on the 8th August 1945 were unaware they would be obliterated on the 9th. They had, thus far, been spared the saturation bombing the Americans were inflicting … Continue reading →

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Voltaire on poverty

Posted on November 18, 2021 by odeboyz

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

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A philosopher contemplates death: Voltaire (1770)

Posted on March 28, 2017 by odeboyz

In any case, Voltaire* added jocularly, he expected to die shortly and would soon find out who was right concerning immortality of the soul— Plato or Spinoza, Saint Paul or Epictetus, Christianity or Confucianism. *This is jocular because Voltaire was … Continue reading →

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