: Some scholars, such as Mortimer Adler, criticized the work as "simplistic" or "vaudevillian". Author's Regrets
: The witty voice of the and a champion of reason. Kant
With Voltaire, Durant turns satirist. He shows the great wit not as a shallow cynic, but as a warrior against the “infamous thing”—religious intolerance and superstition. Voltaire’s philosophy, Durant quips, was “common sense raised to a crusade.” The chapter is a masterclass in biographical storytelling: we see Voltaire as businessman, lover, prisoner, and exile. And through it all, we hear Durant’s own progressive, democratic voice: philosophy must be judged not by its internal consistency, but by its effect on human suffering.
Durant had a gift for the pithy, quotable summary. Exclusive to his style is the ability to reduce Kant’s "Critique of Pure Reason" into a single, digestible metaphor, or to summarize Nietzsche’s superman theory without losing its terrifying beauty. He famously wrote:
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: Some scholars, such as Mortimer Adler, criticized the work as "simplistic" or "vaudevillian". Author's Regrets
: The witty voice of the and a champion of reason. Kant
With Voltaire, Durant turns satirist. He shows the great wit not as a shallow cynic, but as a warrior against the “infamous thing”—religious intolerance and superstition. Voltaire’s philosophy, Durant quips, was “common sense raised to a crusade.” The chapter is a masterclass in biographical storytelling: we see Voltaire as businessman, lover, prisoner, and exile. And through it all, we hear Durant’s own progressive, democratic voice: philosophy must be judged not by its internal consistency, but by its effect on human suffering.
Durant had a gift for the pithy, quotable summary. Exclusive to his style is the ability to reduce Kant’s "Critique of Pure Reason" into a single, digestible metaphor, or to summarize Nietzsche’s superman theory without losing its terrifying beauty. He famously wrote:
