![]() ![]() This philosophy states that since God created the world and God is perfect, everything in the world is ultimately perfect. The reception of the work was controversial in fact, the Great Council of Geneva immediately denounced it and ordered all copies to be burned.Ĭandide parodies the philosophy of optimism put forth by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz. le Docteur Ralph, translated in 1759 as Candide Or All for the Best. He criticized everyone and signed his works with "Ecrasez l'in-fame" or "down with infamy." Though he wrote more than eighty volumes of material, his most popular work remains Candide ou L'optimisme, traduit de l'Allemand, de Mr. François-Marie Arouet, best known under his pen name, Voltaire, is such a historical giant that some scholars, like Ariel and Will Durant, call the eighteenth century the "Age of Voltaire." Voltaire was unrivaled in stature as an author. ![]()
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