http://kxc0616.edublogs.org My MODL 5304 Blog Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://kxc0616.edublogs.org/2007/02/04/candide/ http://kxc0616.edublogs.org/2007/02/04/candide/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:12:16 +0000 kxc0616 http://kxc0616.edublogs.org/2007/02/04/candide/ I enjoyed reading Candide.  I found the paper a little harder though.  Every definition that I could come up with for Enlightenment seemed to go against something in Candide.  Voltaire was having such a good time making fun of the optimism and pessimism.  It is almost hard to see him as an enlightenment thinker. 

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