In Candide, Voltaire shows his hated for two anti-Enlightenment views: war and religion. He also shows the importance of education, reason, and science throughout the book, which are two very important Enlightenment ideas. ... A major part of the Enlightenment was science. ... The enlightenment placed a high emphasis on scientists, and this example from Candide shows that the enlightenment thought that a high emphasis on science would create progress. ... Through his emphasis on using human freedom and reason to attain progress, Candide's journeys teach us the basic ideals of the enli...

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During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. ... In "Candide", the novel ridicules a number of Enlightenment Period philosophies, it showed how the Enlightenment was nothing like a uniform movement. Candide's setting takes place during the Enlightenment Era; "The Enlightenment" is the name for a movement that encompasses a wide variety of ideas and advances in the fields of philosophy, science, and ...

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Voltaire was very significant to the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th Century, and so he wrote Candide with very much accuracy to the time period, in order to reflect his support for certain Enlightenment ideas. An example of this was Voltaire's presentation of the Enlightenment idea of Optimism, " 'Optimism,' said Cacambo, 'What is that?' ... The importance of this idea, makes it worth it for Voltaire to not be completely historically accurate. ...

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Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... The baron's extreme outrage is meant to satirize the aristocracy's absurd insistence on the importance of noble blood. ...

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