How did Voltaire praise China? Why?

Voltaire was keen to praise China's morality and law. In his words and deeds, he highly praised China and Confucius and their theories. He regarded Confucius as the "interpreter" of "rationality" and "wisdom". Voltaire borrowed ideas and cultures from China and other eastern countries, broadened his horizons and gradually formed his own enlightenment thoughts.

Voltaire's admiration for China's ideology and culture at that time was not out of curiosity, but his "contact" with China, which coincided with the ideological emancipation advocated by the Enlightenment at that time, and produced * * * songs, from which he learned ideological nutrition and satisfied the ideological weapon he was looking for to oppose French religious thought and its forces at that time and feudalism.

In Voltaire's view, China has a lot to praise. The history of China "contains almost no fictional and strange ideas, and no Egyptian or Greek spokesmen claim to be inspired by God. The history of China was written rationally from the beginning. Voltaire thinks that China's laws conform to the laws of reason and nature.

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Voltaire (French: Voltaire, 1694,165438+1October 21May 30, 778), whose real name is Fran? ois-Marie Arouet (French: Fran? Ois-Marie Arouet), Voltaire is his pen name, French enlightenment thinker, writer and philosopher? .

Voltaire opposed absolute monarchy, advocated deism, criticized the Catholic church and advocated freedom of speech. One of his widely acclaimed words is (invented by later generations, not Voltaire himself? I don't agree with you, but I will defend your right to speak to the death.

Voltaire was the leader of the French bourgeois enlightenment in the18th century, and was known as "the king of French thought", "the best poet in France" and "the conscience of Europe". Advocating an enlightened monarch and emphasizing freedom and equality. ? His representative works include Philosophical Exchange, Louis XIV Age, Honest Man, etc. 1778 died on May 30th at the age of 83.

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