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PREMIUM-Episode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide”

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Attitude of Philosophy

The world is a great battle between good and evil. You have no role in it whatsoever. It's not that you have no role. Well, that the force of evil is sort of on par with God and the force of good. And those two things battle, and it's not like God is a Sandin and dominant. So I didn't see that. He was into it in a less rigorous way to say than a liveness. But he clearly by his own life and the amount of time he spent writing about this crap, he was into it. The ignorant person might be really happy and have all these pleasures and not be haunted by these other things. But still that's

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