Candide Philosophical Optimism
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…e greatest evils: "boredom, vice, and poverty." Candide deeply considers these words, and decides that they "must cultivate their garden." Even when the entire group has accepted the pastoral lifestyle, and has found content, Pangloss the Optimist attempts to prove how all their prior misfortunes were part of the necessary chain of events for them to reach happiness. Voltaire paints Pangloss as the true dolt of optimism, never realizing the errors in his own logic.
…e greatest evils: "boredom, vice, and poverty." Candide deeply considers these words, and decides that they "must cultivate their garden." Even when the entire group has accepted the pastoral lifestyle, and has found content, Pangloss the Optimist attempts to prove how all their prior misfortunes were part of the necessary chain of events for them to reach happiness. Voltaire paints Pangloss as the true dolt of optimism, never realizing the errors in his own logic.
