The Best of All Possible Worlds?
The Age of Enlightenment took place in the 1700’s following the Scientific Revolution. A main figure that criticized certain Enlightenment ideas was Voltaire. He was a French deist who challenged the idea that “the Western world was the best of all possible worlds” (Eves, lecture, March 11). Voltaire believed things that happen to people in their everyday lives did not happen because of reason or order but by accident and chance. A country cannot only improve but it must improve, and more importantly he believed that people had to do it by themselves because God was not going to help them.
In Voltaire’s, Candide, he expressed his disagreements with the optimism showed by many people during his time
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