example of hypocrisy in the Church is the face that the Pope has sworn celibacy and yet‚ has a daughter. In these situations‚ Voltaire is poking fun at the Church and its behavior and comes up with several of these ironic and satirical situations in the novel‚ there is definitely an element of high comedy about such actions and one can get the sense that philosophers‚ like Voltaire‚ were merely working through the system that they appeared to detest instead of working against it in a more proactive way
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day. It had a wide variety of effects on philosophy‚ religion‚ and science. It pushed some‚ like Voltaire‚ to become more pessimistic‚ while others‚ like Rousseau‚ to become more optimistic. Even further it pushed some‚ like Kant‚ to use reason and science to explain it‚ while others‚ like Wesley‚ looked to the church and religion. Voltaire and Rousseau are polarized on their views of the quake. Voltaire couldn’t see any
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of Enlightenment. In this period many people followed the teachings of their forefathers‚ such as Socrates‚ who was considered a figure of skepticism and rational thought. Challenging all views and theorems was the main point of this new ideology. Voltaire‚ a very powerful and influential figure among the writers of the 18th century‚ was known for his rejection of religion and a devout deist. In one of his most famous works‚ Candide‚ he causes the reader’s to reflect on the beliefs and values of the
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In Tartuffe‚ Moliere’s use’s plot to defend and oppose characters that symbolize and ridicule habitual behavior’s that was imposed during the neo-classical time period. His work‚ known as a comedy of manners‚ consists of flat characters‚ with few and similar traits and that always restore some kind of peace in the end. He down plays society as a whole by creating a microseism‚ where everyone in the family has to be obedient‚ respectful‚ and mindful of the head of the home‚ which is played by the
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1 Analyze and evaluate the various Enlightenment philosophers‚ including Voltaire‚ David Hume‚ and John Locke. What contributions did they make to Western Society? The Enlightenment was a reaction against the current political and social frameworks in Europe. The enlightenment attempted to suggest the standards of sound judgment and motivation to the workings of ordinary life and in government while questioning humankind in society. It dismissed the celestial privileges of rulers even though it
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Throughout the novel Candide‚ written by Voltaire‚ the professor Pangloss is a loyal companion to the title character. Whenever an unfortunate event occurs‚ no matter how deplorable or horrific‚ Pangloss counsels Candide and tells him they live in the "best of all possible worlds" and "all is for the best." (Voltaire 20) Candide traverses on his journey and accepts this as truth. The title character of Siddhartha‚ in contrast‚ follows his own path and questions the counsel of elders and even
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they are some dangerous teachers whom take advantage of their students. The students are a “captive audience” in front of these teachers and can be easily brain washed by the people whom they trust. In the classic novel Candide written by Voltaire in the 1700s‚ the many traps and dangers of blindly following the teachings of a “teacher” are exposed. This satirical novel helps expose the many follies today in our education system. The conformist style of student/teacher relationship that
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ideas about natural law and human being’s nature had remained the same for hundreds of years. These ideas were however challenged in the years leading up to 1789 and the French Revolution by enlightened people known as Philosophes. Philosophes like Voltaire‚ Lady Mary Montagu‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Galileo Galilei believed in a new meaning for natural truth and human reason. These new ideas challenged the existing social‚ political‚ and economic order determining how a country and its people operated
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Candide 1. Voltaire satirizes war and the Church in his novella‚ Candide. War is depicted as unnecessary‚ and something that only brings pain and the worst out of most people. While escaping the Bulgarian army who “whipped (him) six-and-thirty times through all the regiment” (Ch. 2) for taking a walk‚ Candide witnesses absolute devastation and death in an “Abare village which the Bulgarians had burnt according to the laws of war” (Ch. 3). And when he escaped that village‚ he entered a Bulgarian
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“metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology” who believes that this is “the best of all possible worlds.” This belief‚ which is argued by Leibniz‚ is the main reason why Voltaire is satirizing his play. Pangloss is an optimist‚ and believes that no matter what happens‚ this is the greatest life anyone can live because the good will always be the case. Voltaire mocks the idea that good prevails over evil because he believes that human beings perpetrate evil. He believes that evil does‚ in fact‚ exist and ignoring
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