>>7280794>reddit:the postHis main aim was popularizing Newtonian physics (accomplished), uniting the philosophes into a coherent party (unaccomplished but he did a lot for bringing esteem to the man of letters), and like another anon said, journalism for enlightened causes (generally accomplished). He was no philosopher in the sense Hume was, and his fiction never soars as high as Moliere or Racine, but that's because he was playing a different game than him. Studying Voltaire as a "fiction writer" or "philosopher" based on21th century notions of what those things are is reductionistic and very reddit
