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Cengage Gale. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Cengage Gale ISBN 0805780858 9780805780857 [US]
Cengage Gale. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Cengage Gale ISBN 0805780858 9780805780857 [US]
New York: Twayne Pub, Date: 1992. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 124 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a yellow and brown dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy. Looks nearly new. 1992. Twayne Pub ISBN 0805780858 9780805780857 [US]
ISBN10: 0805780858, ISBN13: 9780805780857, [publisher: Cengage Gale] Hardcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. [Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
ISBN10: 0805780858, ISBN13: 9780805780857, [publisher: Cengage Gale] Hardcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. [Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
ISBN10: 0805780858, ISBN13: 9780805780857, [publisher: Cengage Gale] Hardcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. [Reno, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
ISBN10: 0805780858, ISBN13: 9780805780857, [publisher: Brand: Twayne Publishers] Hardcover First Edition Candide came into being largely because of Voltaire's great dissatisfaction with the explanation for the problem of evil and human suffering provided by the philosophers of his day. Published in 1759 when Voltaire was 65, Candide was a direct attack on the school of optimism championed by German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and English poet Alexander Pope and popularized in the adventure and romance novels of the period.Optimism, Voltaire's young hero, Candide, asserts, is "the mania for asserting that all is well when one is not." The danger of optimism, Voltaire believed, lies in its essentially passive response to life. If God has given human beings "the best of all possible worlds," as Leibniz claimed, and if everything that happens is somehow for the best, then to what point is human choice and action?In this well-balanced study, Mason relates the events in Voltaire's personal life and in the world around him that contributed to his revolt: the death of his closest companion; his exile from Paris; the catastrophic Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the eruption and often ruthless conduct of the Seven Years' War. The real-life hardships of psychological pain, natural disaster, and war, Voltaire found, could not be rationalized away by philosophy. [Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992 ...
ISBN10: 0805780858, ISBN13: 9780805780857, [publisher: Twayne Pub] Hardcover Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. [Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
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