Episode #042 ... Optimism
Philosophize This!
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Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?
In 17 55, one of the most catastrophic earthquakes in human history hits the city of lisbon. To voltaire, it was widespread brutality that was beyond justification. So voltaire decides to do what any decent person would do if we lived back? He writes a poem about right. In this poem, he's responding to two things: One, the earthquake, obviously, and two, people that thought like leibnitz,. People who were naive enough to think that even with things like this happening, we are still living in the best of all possible worlds.
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