1. philosophes
The philosophes attacked organized religion because it blocked human reason. ... The Philosophes, building on Locke and others and embracing many and varied currents of thought with a common supreme faith in reason, vigorously attacked religious and scientific dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and social-economic restrains. ... Although Voltaire is the most representative philosophe of his time, Candide is a strange book in that it attacks many of the assumptions of the philosophe movement. ... Rousseau was one of the first modern writers to seriously attack the institution of private prop...
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