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Candide Response

Candide Essay. Essay Guidelines:Double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or Arial700-1,000 wordsParenthetical citationsWorks Cited

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Candide Response

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    1. Candide Response What is the authors purpose with this work? What philosophical approaches to life are presented in this piece? Do you agree with any of them? Why or why not? Why is this work part of the classical canon of literature?

    2. Candide Essay Essay Guidelines: Double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or Arial 700-1,000 words Parenthetical citations Works Cited Because God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-benevolent, any world He created would have to be the best possible. It is true that there are murderers, rapists, thieves, and bloody-minded dictators, but free will is so important a good that evildoers must be allowed to choose to do evil. Similarly, for there to be the maximum amount of order, beauty, and variety in nature, there also has to be the possibility of droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the like. Such, greatly simplified, are the kinds of ideas against which Voltaire directs his satire. Does Candide refute such ideas successfully? Could it be that Voltaires satire is not so much directed against these ideas as against people who use them as a pretext for a heartless and self-righteous complacency? What do you understand Candide to mean when he says that from now on he will tend his garden? Refrain from public life? Accept things as they are? Try to expand this phrase into a program for living. What is your own answer to the violence and misery of human life as Voltaire depicts it?

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