{"id":123,"date":"2015-10-27T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-10-27T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T01:50:53","slug":"discussion-questions-for-wednesdays-class-1028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/2015\/10\/27\/discussion-questions-for-wednesdays-class-1028\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions for Wednesday&#8217;s Class 10\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) \u201c\u2026 [a philosopher] takes as true that which is true, as false that which is false, as doubtful that which is doubtful, and as probably that which is only probable. He goes further \u2013 and here is a great perfection of the\u00a0<em>philosopher\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 when he has no proper motive for judging, he remains undecided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Form pairs and find in his\u00a0<em>Philosophical Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0places where Voltaire supports the quotation above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2) In his section on Toleration, Voltaire calls religion the \u201cprerogative of humanity\u201d and mentions religious practices and beliefs throughout his dictionary. What is your interpretation of Voltaire\u2019s beliefs about religion based on his various references throughout the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) \u201c\u2026 [a philosopher] takes as true that which is true, as false that which is false, as doubtful that which is doubtful, and as probably that which is only probable. He goes further \u2013 and here is a great perfection of the\u00a0philosopher\u00a0\u2013 when he has no proper motive for judging, he remains undecided.\u201d Form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/hist238\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}