The Asylum of Optimists in Candide

Optimist Asylum "Philosophy is mainly composed of philosophers who think all other people are stupid.He often prove this.In this humorous statement, most of Candide of Voltaire He elaborated Voltaire's view on contemporary philosophy, especially philosopher Leibniz's optimism.Candide advocates the idea that philosophy is useless without application, but this idea I will leave it to the explanation.

One of Candide 's main dilemmas is an optimistic and pessimistic worldview. The optimistic view towards the world is related to Voltaire's criticism of Christianity throughout the story. Voltaire bore religion through a series of corrupt, hypocritical religious leaders, but he does not condemn daily religious believers. Candide grew up under the guidance of Pangloss, I thought this was the best world and I thought things were due to natural reasons. This Pangloss 's view is an optimistic view on the Christian - based world, the problem of the late Candid' s story, to Pangloss, "Things can not be realized because everything is the best" (Voltaire, 35). However, as Candid experienced many horrible events such as whiplash, rape, robbery, unjust enforcement, illness, earthquake, betrayal, he questioned the belief in optimism.

Prior to arriving at a relatively happy destination Voltaire made Candide and his companions very uneven. Candid is always a hopeless optimist who believes in the highest state of mankind. Voltaire drew him as a natural optimism: "His personality expresses his soul admirably; he combines an honest heart with a very simple heart" (336). Candide was led by the philosopher Pangloss as the way of the world, and Voltaire clearly believed this to be a fool. Meanwhile, innocent frank Candid believes Pangloss is "the world's greatest philosopher" (337). Candide must be thrown out of the castle where he lived and must pass through a cruel and corrupt world. But in every step of his introduction to the cruel reality of the world, Candid seeks to maintain a positive prospect that stupid Pangloss planted in him.