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This book begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultiv
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Long for what it was. Could have made the same point in a third as many pages. Though I agree with the ideal behind the book, I'm not a big fan of using a made up story to try to proove something. seems like a person could make the exact opposite of this book, that supports the opposite point of view. Long and repetitive for the point that he is trying to make. Very long and repetitive. Repetitive.
It did make me laugh out loud a couple of times though. ...more
It did make me laugh out loud a couple of times though. ...more
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