Philosophe

Wikipedia suggests that a philosophe is a French enlightenment thinker/philosopher that was dedicated to solving the problems of the world.

Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary states that a philosophe is one of the deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the 18th century French Enlightenment.


Britannica Online defines a philosophe as any of the literary men, scientists, and thinkers of 18th-century France who were united, in spite of divergent personal views, in their conviction of the supremacy and efficacy of human reason.

By combining all three of the definitions from my different sources I have come to define a philosophe as a French enlightenment thinker that was dedicated to revealing the truths of the World.