Voltaire's Candide is a satiric work that promulgates the
philosophy of the Enlightenment by satirizing its opponents. It can be read as a defense
of Epicureanism (a classical philosophical system revived by Enlightenment scholars in
Britain) against competing philosophical systems of Leibniz, Christianity, Plato, and
other organized religions, with the concluding notion of cultivating one's garden
referring to the Garden of Epicurus. Voltaire's attacks on Christianity focus on the
senseless cruelty of the Inquisition, the dogmatism of other parts of the Roman Catholic
Church, and the naive sentimentality of pietism. He also argues against the notion of
divine providence giving meaning to good and evil events, but instead by showing how
disasters affect good and evil humans alike, argues the Enlightenment position of purely
material scientific theories of causation.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
In what ways does the book reflect enlightenment values and ideas? quotes would be great!
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