Candide: and Related TextsDavid Wootton's scalpel-sharp translation of Candide features a brilliant Introduction, a map of Candide's travels, and a selection of those writings of Voltaire, Leibniz, Pope and Rousseau crucial for fully appreciating this eighteenth-century satiric masterpiece that even today retains its celebrated bite. |
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... painful experiences are usually much more intense than pleasurable ones—an hour of toothache 2. Was Bayle a Christian? The question is vexed. See Gianluca Mori, Bayle philosophe (Paris: Honor ́e Champion, 1999) and David Wootton ...
... painful experiences are usually much more intense than pleasurable ones—an hour of toothache 2. Was Bayle a Christian? The question is vexed. See Gianluca Mori, Bayle philosophe (Paris: Honor ́e Champion, 1999) and David Wootton ...
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... painful or evil, but he claimed pain and evil would only exist in order to make possible a greater good (a baby teething experiences pain, but the pain is a necessary part of acquiring adult teeth; the rape of Lucretia, Leibniz's ...
... painful or evil, but he claimed pain and evil would only exist in order to make possible a greater good (a baby teething experiences pain, but the pain is a necessary part of acquiring adult teeth; the rape of Lucretia, Leibniz's ...
Page xiv
... pain—there is no evidence that Bayle was tortured by boredom, as Voltaire certainly was). Moreover, Voltaire constructs the story so that at every step (at least until we reach the end) optimism is undermined. It is not merely that all ...
... pain—there is no evidence that Bayle was tortured by boredom, as Voltaire certainly was). Moreover, Voltaire constructs the story so that at every step (at least until we reach the end) optimism is undermined. It is not merely that all ...
Page xv
... pain than pleasure in life (despite all the evidence, one might say). Bayle's arguments (soon to be called “pessimism”) are equally misleading, and Martin does not prove a reliable guide. Life is often dreadful, but can be delightful ...
... pain than pleasure in life (despite all the evidence, one might say). Bayle's arguments (soon to be called “pessimism”) are equally misleading, and Martin does not prove a reliable guide. Life is often dreadful, but can be delightful ...
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... pain and good and evil, he is imitating God. If the story of Candide seems to show that Leibniz was wrong to think of the world as governed by necessity not chance, one might say that the structure of Candide seems to show that Leibniz ...
... pain and good and evil, he is imitating God. If the story of Candide seems to show that Leibniz was wrong to think of the world as governed by necessity not chance, one might say that the structure of Candide seems to show that Leibniz ...
Contents
Candide or Optimism | 1 |
Voltaires Letter of 1 April 1759 to the Journal Encyclopedique | 81 |
Leibniz Metaphysics Summarized | 84 |
Pope Essay on Man 173334 Selections | 86 |
Rousseau versus Voltaire | 95 |
Poem on the Lisbon Disaster | 99 |
JeanJacques Rousseau Letter to Voltaire on Optimism 18 August 1756 | 108 |
The History of the Travels of Scarmentado Written by Himself 1756 | 123 |
Voltaires Correspondence | 132 |
Well All Is from the Portable Philosophical Dictionary 1764 | 137 |
Wives Obey Your Husbands | 143 |
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