How Voltaire's "Candide" relates to philosophe values
Title: How Voltaire's "Candide" relates to philosophe values
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1615 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
How Voltaire's "Candide" relates to philosophe values
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1615 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
It's understandably difficult to pin one set of values to the Philosophes because their range of
ideas, opinions, and beliefs were so wide. Not all Philosophes emerged from a kind of social-activist
mold. Voltaire, for instance, was a harsh critic of Enlightenment optimism, but he didn't share Rousseau's
claim that the arts and sciences were nothing more than "garlands of flowers [thrown] on iron fetters."
(Kramnick 363) Similarly, although the idea of a perfect God creating
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to endure such pains, you'd
never have arrived here. This, of course, presumed that 'here' was somehow preferable to any other state that
he'd already been in. Candide answers cryptically: "But we must tend our garden." (Voltaire 120) This alludes
to the idea that, perhaps, explaining why good and evil exist-and whether or not they should-isn't as important
as acknowledging their existence, and trying to live one's life to the fullest, regardless of an irrecoverable
Eldorado.