Freedom is “ours”? Philosophy of the “Second Epistle” in Voltaire Poetic Discourses on Man
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Revue européenne de recherches sur la poésie
2022, n° 8. varia - Author: Turcat (Éric)
- Pages: 41 to 55
- Journal: European Journal of Poetry Research
Who is this “we” in the “Second Discourse”? Is it the royal we of a Sovereign God, the complicit we of the divine emissary and the poet, or the collective we of humanity? Paradoxically, this semantic confusion seems to coerce the singular discourse “On Freedom” into a plurality of determinisms. The purpose here will be to redefine Voltairian freedom, not in the relationship of man to his divinity, but in that of the “we” to its own discursive conscience.
- CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
- ISBN: 978-2-406-14567-7
- EAN: 9782406145677
- ISSN: 2555-0241
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14567-7.p.0041
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 02-01-2023
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: conscience, determinism, experience, God, Plato.
