VOLTAIRE VE MICROMEGAS ADLI FELSEFİ HİKÂYESİ ÜZERİNE
ON VOLTAIRE AND HIS PHILOSOPHICAL STORY MICROMEGAS

Summary/Abstract: The 18th century celebrated French philosopher and writer Voltaire transferred his sentiments and ideas that he experienced during his life to the literary domain. The philosopher as a writer of poetry and tragedy was affected by the people that he met and by the events that he experienced. His criticism towards to the age and the society that he lived in influenced the thinkers of his age and the descendents by his original approach philosophy and style. Voltaire’s philosophical story Micromégas reveals the conflict of science and philosophy in the 18th century. The evaluation of the scientific specifications as the only reality and invariable principles by the age’s scientists, was criticized by the philosopher within the scope of the theory of relativity. Voltaire expresses that the forthcoming centuries can evaluate the truth of the age as an illusion by putting philosophical interrogations towards to the scientifically truth. Both the form of the story and the philosophical approaches to the fictional character are important for the philosopher in order to specify the method of the discussion and the proponents. Despite the author being named as the creator of the philosophical story, by means of a diachronic research, we see that the fact is different. The philosophers and literary works that Voltaire met during the exile years when he took refuge in England effected the author’s imagination. Jonathan Swift is predominant between these authors. According to the certain evaluations in various academically resources, the celebrated English author wrote his story which tells about an imaginary travel, as inspired by the True Story of Lucian who lived in 2nd century B.C II. The common thematic and stylistic features of the three works and the conflict of science-philosophy are discussed in the present study.

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