Optimism as a Theme for Candide

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Philosophy

 

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William S

 

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June 12, 2013

 

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University

 

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According to Wikipedia, "optimism, the opposite of pessimism, is a lifeview where the world is looked upon the as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that people are inherently good. These people are said to have a "positive" outlook on life, believing that given time, things will work out in the end...
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Its opposite is philosophical pessimism. Perhaps even more optimistic than Leibniz, was the anarchist philosopher William Godwin. He hoped that society would eventually reach the state where all violence and force would be replaced by calm reason, that matter could eventually be made subservient to mind and that the secret of immortality could be discovered...
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