outline of Voltaire, Lessing, and Kant
Candide
Free-will-agent
Determine the course of action
Leibniz
Cause-effect
Nature catastrophe disaster=knowledge
Good and bad=moral
Third person Good may distance readers from the protagonist/hero
Genealogy
Chain reaction, trace back the origin Disease: syphilisparody of genealogy love and cause and effect become questionable
El Dorado The best, utopia
Good: no material wealth, all in agreement, knowledge/gallery, safe (very hard to reach and surrounded by mountains), open and friendly, no laws and crime Bad: still have a lot of material things, no trade, no development
Reasons Voltaire is similar to the text:
People in his family died, so when people are revived maybe it’s like he is trying to bring them back in real life.
Milton
Cunegondehis lover
Paradise but he wants something different/he was born into nobility also
Theology
Three languages
Authority figures (pococurante and martin) internal monologue
“isn’t there a pleasure to be had in criticizing everything, in perceiving defects where everyone else believes they see beautiful works of art” page 67
“there’s pleasure to be had where there is no pleasure?”
He idolizes cunegonde but she is just temporary transient…futile
Critics:
Pangloss
Pococurante
Martin
Cunegonde
The Turk (the old man) He works in order to keep away boredom, depravity, and poverty. Praxis
Big questions in Candide:
If the cause is good, does it mean the effect is good?
What view should one view the world by?
Main points of Candide:
Cause and effectjustification (Pangloss’ (best of all possible worlds, Lisbon earthquake, natural castastropheknowledge/rationalize)
Free will agent
The best/Utopia
Practice is the best philosophy because practice isn’t a philosophy
Laocoon: an essay on
A snake emerges from the ocean kills the sons then kills him
Poetry=speaking picture
Painting/art/sculpture=mute poetry A limit defines as much what is inside of it as outside of
Free-will-agent
Determine the course of action
Leibniz
Cause-effect
Nature catastrophe disaster=knowledge
Good and bad=moral
Third person Good may distance readers from the protagonist/hero
Genealogy
Chain reaction, trace back the origin Disease: syphilisparody of genealogy love and cause and effect become questionable
El Dorado The best, utopia
Good: no material wealth, all in agreement, knowledge/gallery, safe (very hard to reach and surrounded by mountains), open and friendly, no laws and crime Bad: still have a lot of material things, no trade, no development
Reasons Voltaire is similar to the text:
People in his family died, so when people are revived maybe it’s like he is trying to bring them back in real life.
Milton
Cunegondehis lover
Paradise but he wants something different/he was born into nobility also
Theology
Three languages
Authority figures (pococurante and martin) internal monologue
“isn’t there a pleasure to be had in criticizing everything, in perceiving defects where everyone else believes they see beautiful works of art” page 67
“there’s pleasure to be had where there is no pleasure?”
He idolizes cunegonde but she is just temporary transient…futile
Critics:
Pangloss
Pococurante
Martin
Cunegonde
The Turk (the old man) He works in order to keep away boredom, depravity, and poverty. Praxis
Big questions in Candide:
If the cause is good, does it mean the effect is good?
What view should one view the world by?
Main points of Candide:
Cause and effectjustification (Pangloss’ (best of all possible worlds, Lisbon earthquake, natural castastropheknowledge/rationalize)
Free will agent
The best/Utopia
Practice is the best philosophy because practice isn’t a philosophy
Laocoon: an essay on
A snake emerges from the ocean kills the sons then kills him
Poetry=speaking picture
Painting/art/sculpture=mute poetry A limit defines as much what is inside of it as outside of