Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

''What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he''s certain he''ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?'' Voltaire''s Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It is also a highly entertaining book: this is no ''dictionary'' in the ordinary sense, nor does it treat ''philosophy'...