The most important philosopher of the Enlightenment is Francois Marie Arouet, who was known by the name of Voltaire. Voltaire lived from 1694 to 1778. He was in many ways a representative philosopher during his century. He wrote over 70 volumes of books and over 21,000 letters based on his thoughts and beliefs. He was known to attack beliefs that he didn’t quite agree with. He and was known to mix the conception of science and reason without an appeal for better institutes and institutions. He was a reformer who cared mostly about social and political matters. As for politics, he believed in an exceptional monarchy or aristocracy, because he thought that regular human beings were not even worthy to govern themselves. He didn’t trust democracy