
PREMIUM-Episode 62: Voltaire’s Novel “Candide”
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Humor in Philosophy
This is the first time I've actually done the podcast with clothing on and sober. And therefore it's my first time meeting Wes and Mark. She's an AD. Our first time that we can make gestures at each other that you the listeners cannot hear, we can say, open a ho-ho. That normally the energy in the show comes from being able to climax at a certain point. It seems especially apropos since we just did McIntyre in his Contra Enlightenment thing to actually read somebody who represents the Enlightenment. Nobody represents the Enlightenment like Voltaire. He was skating the trends, he was the man,. Descartes and Newton might have actually produced the substance, but Volt
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