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Aydınlanma Çağının (Fr. Le siècle des Lumières: 17151789) en ünlü filozoflarından olan Voltaire’in başyapıtı kabul edilen Candide, Ocak 1759’da Cenevre’de, Doktor Ralph diye birine ait Almanca bir eserin Fransızca çevirisiymiş gibi yayımlandı. Voltaire daha hayattayken elli baskısı yapıldı ve birçok dile çevirildi. Voltaire Candide’i, Alman filozof Leibniz’in “Tanrı kusursuzdur, dünya mükemmel olmayabilir ama Tanrı onu mümkün olan en iyi biçimde yaratmıştır. Kötülük her an mevcuttur ancak sonsuz bir iyilikle dengelenmiştir.”

Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, “I was hanged and survived #soggyrope,” or, “#nosyphilisnochocolate.” Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a day’s toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!