Liebnitzian Philosophy And Candide
"Everything happens for the best, in this the best of all possible worlds." This is a statement that can be found many times within Voltaire's Candide. Voltaire rejected Lebitizian Optimism, using Candide as a means for satirizing what was wrong with the world, and showing that, in reality, this is not the best of all possible worlds.
The philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which Voltaire called "optimism," is one of the main themes of Candide. The two main points of Leibnizian philosophy are that God is beneficent, and that in creating the world, He created the best possible one. Leibniz did not argue that the world was perfect or that evil was non-existent, but thanks to God's goodness and His constant concern with his creation, right finally emerges. It is all a matter of being able to see the Divine plan in its totality and not to judge by solitary parts. This theory was attractive to many because it answered a profound philosophical question that mankind had be......
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