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A 5 page paper comparing the writing and opinions of Baron De Montesquieu, ('The Persian Letters') Alexander Pope ('Essay on Man'), Voltaire ('Candide'), and Rousseau ('Discourse on Inequality') in terms of their views on government and religion.
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day-to-day profession. What he sought, as he later remarked, was the spirit behind existing laws, the slow growth of social institutions, and the foundations of justice. He published his first
important work, "The Persian Letters," in 1721. In his imagined letters, the traveling Persian satirized the diverting follies and foibles as well as the more serious political and religious abuses
of 18th-century France. These strangers from the Orient could plausibly be astonished at what to a Frenchman at home would seem only natural. Montesquieu discovered the power of using
a "foreign" observer to comment on society. Montesquieus wit and irony were often biting. "The Persian Letters" attacked religious wars, the Inquisition, the pope, the absolutism of Louis XIV, and
the decades fiasco of speculation and inflation. Voltaire once commented that Montesquieu "always thinks, and makes others think." In terms of his outlook on the spiritual or religious world, the
idea of the "relativity" of human beliefs and institutions proves itself fundamental to Montesquieus outlook. He knows that the world is not uniform and that differences are to be expected.
The home country, the home religion, the home government is not always right. This paper was sold by . He developed a natural and broad cosmopolitanism from
this emphasis on "relativity." In comparison, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the British poet and philosopher described the universe much like a "wonderful mechanism" with all its parts completely and perfectly adjusted
-- perfectly, because it is Gods planned handiwork. The poet, thus viewing the world system, concluded that "Whatever is, is right," a doctrine which demonstrated to his critics that his
lack of a belief in divine purpose in the universe seemed either superficial or absurd. Voltaire, on the other hand, was a passionate defender of freedom. His most famous
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