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Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaires day, that all is for the best in the best possible worlds. It was the indifferent shrug and callous intertia that this optimism concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the all for the best approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent ear Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaires day, that all is for the best in the best possible worlds. It was the indifferent shrug and callous intertia that this optimism concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the all for the best approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering involved. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrious variety of tortures, tragedies and reversals of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a matapysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigologist of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of the eighteenth-century satire.
Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaires day, that all is for the best in the best possible worlds. It was the indifferent shrug and callous intertia that this optimism concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the all for the best approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent ear Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaires day, that all is for the best in the best possible worlds. It was the indifferent shrug and callous intertia that this optimism concealed which... Read More
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Voltaire purchased a chateau in Geneva, where, among other works, he wrote Candide (1759). To avoid Calvinist persecution, Voltaire moved across the border to Ferney, where the wealthy writer lived for 18 years until his death. Voltaire began to openly challenge Christianity, calling it the infamous thing. He wrote Frederick the Great: Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Voltaire ended every letter to friends with Ecrasez linfame (crush the infamy — the Christian religion). His pamphlet, The Sermon on the Fifty (1762) went after transubstantiation, miracles, biblical contradictions, the Jewish religion, and the Christian God. Voltaire wrote that a true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough, or inspired books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror. He also published excerpts of Testament of the Abbe Meslier, by an atheist priest, in Holland, which advanced the Enlightenment. Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary was published in 1764 without his name. Although the first edition immediately sold out, Geneva officials, followed by Dutch and Parisian, had the books burned. It was published in 1769 as two large volumes. Voltaire campaigned fiercely against civil atrocities in the name of religion, writing pamphlets and commentaries about the barbaric execution of a Huguenot trader, who was first broken at the wheel, then burned at the stake, in 1762. Voltaires campaign for justice and restitution ended with a posthumous retrial in 1765, during which 40 Parisian judges declared the defendant innocent. Voltaire urgently tried to save the life of Chevalier de la Barre, a 19 year old sentenced to death for blasphemy for failing to remove his hat during a religious procession. In 1766, Chevalier was beheaded after being tortured, then his body was burned, along with a copy of Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary. Voltaires statue at the Pantheon was melted down during Nazi occupation. D. 1778.
Voltaire (1694-1778), pseudónimo de François-Marie Arouet, fue uno de los escritores y filósofos más des