Question

Name the philosphers and
their books during the
French revolution

3 marks question​

Answer 1

There are a lot of French philosophers but here are some of the more influential ones.

• Voltaire:

Books:

Candide

Ideas:

Freedom

Secular states

• Rene Descartes

Books:

Discourse on Method

Meditations on First Philosophy

Ideas:

Most famously, Cogito Ergo Sum or “I think therefore I am”

Method of doubt

Dualism

• Jean-Paul Sartre

Books:

Being and Nothingness

Nausea

Ideas:

Existentialism ( i.e. existence precedes essence)

Bad faith

• Jaques Derrida

Books:

Of Grammatology

Specters of Marx

Ideas:

Deconstruction

Explanation:

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