Pondering Evil with Voltaire: Candide
Books that Lead to Philosophical Reflections…
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1 min readMar 20, 2024
If God exists and is good, why is there evil in the world? This question, which troubles the minds of many believers, is one of the arguments commonly used by anti-theists.
The Enlightenment thinker Voltaire, in his novel Candide, mocks the problem of God and evil by criticizing the philosopher…