Voltaire and Candide 
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Yes,
Voltaire is saying, there is much corruption in humanity, but there is also at least a glimmer of hope that individual human beings can overcome that ....
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Religious Intolerance & Voltaire's Candide
.... Does this sound like a plea for reform?
Yes. But it can also be interpreted as intolerant of religion because
Voltaire does not have another plan. ....
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Capital Punishment from a Philosophical Perspective
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Yes, says Hobbes, government, and more than that, absolute government, administered ....
Voltaire, Beccaria's French contemporary, cites him in a satirical critique ....
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Shopping Habits
.... of things he can afford let alone." The above two quotes by
Voltaire and Thoreau .... of fifteen questions, and Gallen argues that if an individual answers
yes to a ....
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