Voltaire, Candide, and Optimism
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How do you face the problem of evil? Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibnitz said in his 1710 work "Essaide · Theodie Chess von Today · Do, Laliberdedel · Homme and Rolizin · du · mar (Good paper of God, human freedom And about the origin of evil) "Please try to solve this problem. Leibniz accepted this central question about theology:
If God is kind (omnipotent), omnipotent (omnipotent) and omniscience (omniscience), how do we explain the existence of pain and inequality in the world?
Leibniz's solution considers God as an "optimizer" of every possibility. The world may have been built in various ways. God is kind and omnipotent, and he chose this world for every possibility, so even if we can not handle it this way the world must be good. In fact, this world must be the best among all possible worlds.
Voltaire has partially constructed Candide for entertainment purposes, mainly to satisfy the paradox of Leibniz's optimistic theory. Through his legendary process Voltaire juxtaposes the original, unexplored optimism of the character in the story of exaggerated real world pessimism and pessimistic adventure. From terrible war to illness, incitement and cheating, Voltaire did not miss bad things in "the best world".
Leibniz thinks our world is a symbol of perfection. He believes that God is perfect as Earth is the concept of God and this perfect flaw must be maintained. But Voltaire further emphasized his sarcasm and chose to begin writing with these places only to deliberately ignore the inevitable evil of the "best world". Leibniz does not actually mean that our world is perfect but it is the best of all the worlds of God. Voltaire said "Candid ignores this
Dr. Panglos was introduced as a representative of the literary symbol of Leibniz's theory. In the early stages of the novel, the innocent frank believed that Pangloss was the supreme authority of all philosophical problems, without doubt obeying his teachings. Candide entered the world with this very closed philosophy and further exaggerated the satirical goal of Voltaire, but through the story, he experienced intense internal conflict between childhood education and social reality did. Voltaire also created the role of Martin. Martin is a very pessimistic opponent and plays the devil's irony in the ears of Candid. As their journey progressed, Candid discovered that it became increasingly more difficult to support Pangloss' s indomitable original optimism.
Franklin, James. "Leibniz solved the problem of evil." Think about that volume. 5 (Autumn of 2003), pp. 97-101. Web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/think.pdf
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