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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 326: Candide by Voltaire
Description: With special guest Longinus, P&C drink and review Carlsberg, then discuss Candide as part of their "shortcut to the classics" series.
The boys give a short review of his life. Voltaire was a pillar of the Englightenment.
In Candide, Voltaire employs biting sarcasim against the idea that this is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide suffers through "one damned thing after another," but continues to have the sunny outlook of his teacher, Pangloss. Everything must be for the best.
Eventually Candide meets Martin, another philosopher with a very different view, which...