Candido o el Optimismo / Candide or Optimism (Clasicos De Siempre / Always Classics) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Voltaire

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9789875505971: Candido o el Optimismo / Candide or Optimism (Clasicos De Siempre / Always Classics) (Spanish Edition)

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ISBN 10: 9875505978 ISBN 13: 9789875505971

Publisher: Longseller, 2005

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The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".

Desde un punto de vista sard�nico, la obra sigue las peripecias del protagonista C�ndido en su primer encuentro con el precepto del optimismo leibniziano de que �todo sucede para bien en este, el mejor de los mundos posibles� y en una serie de aventuras subsecuentes que refutan de forma dram�tica el famoso precepto a pesar del obstinamiento con el que el personaje se aferra a �ste.
La novela satiriza la filosof�a de Leibniz, y es un muestrario de los horrores del mundo del siglo XVIII. En C�ndido, Leibniz est� representado por el fil�sofo Pangloss, tutor del protagonista. A pesar de observar y experimentar una serie de infortunios, Pangloss afirma repetidamente que �tout est au mieux� (�todo sucede para bien�) y que vive en �le meilleur des mondes possibles� (�el mejor de los mundos posibles�).

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Voltaire, pseud�nimo de Fran�ois-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778), fue un escritor, historiador, fil�sofo y abogado franc�s que figura como uno de los principales representantes de la Ilustraci�n, un per�odo que enfatiz� el poder de la raz�n humana, de la ciencia y el respeto hacia la humanidad. Difusor de ideas liberales, llev� una vida agitada como intelectual perseguido. Enemigo de los Jesuitas, de la superstici�n y de la hipocres�a religiosa.

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