A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, merce
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The Philosophe
1700S · FRANCE · ENLIGHTENMENT PUBLICIST
Diderot & d’Alembert, the Encyclopédie
You aim wit and reason in public at superstition and cruelty, and you do not mind the enemies. You think ridicule and argument can drag the human race out of the dark.
REPRESENTATIVE FIGURESVoltaire, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu
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Primary: Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
Secondary: Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment (2001)




















