Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a prominent 18th-century French Enlightenment writer and philosopher. Voltaire was known for his sharp criticism and satire of the church, religious intolerance, and slavery, and for his firm belief in truth as a higher ideal, a point on which Nietzsche strongly disagrees with him.
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Voltaire Character Timeline in Beyond Good and Evil
The timeline below shows where the character Voltaire appears in Beyond Good and Evil. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
2. The Free Spirit
...time, Nietzsche is scornful of the search for truth as its own moral idea, mocking Voltaire. He wonders if we can understand any part of reality but our own drives, and...
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