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79Literature, Philosophy and the Absurd: Voltaire's Candide
At the age of sixty-five, Voltaire, who had already established a name for himself as a philosopher, satirist and playwright, published his most famous work, Candide. The fictional work is a farce on the popular romances written at the time....
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79Experience: Candide and Olaudah Equiano
How do we use the knowledge we acquire through study and experience? Two options are explored in Voltaire's "Candide" and Olaudah Equiano's travel narrative.
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70Optimism, Fate & Politics - Dr. Pangloss, I Presume?
"All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds". This was the maxim of Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire's political satire, Candide. But is there any truth in it?
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