satire vocab

individual, a type of person, a class, an institution, a nation, humankind

correct human vice or folly
ridicule the failing and not the person
limit ridicule to corrogible (correctable) flaws

horatian satire (light, humorous)
juvenalian satire (bitter, dark, expresses outrage)

Augustan Satire (coined by Voltaire)

the French Revolution

great thinker of the 17th and 18th centuries
known as the "last universal genius"

god created the earth, god is both immanent and transcendent, belief in divine intervention (justification for daily prayer)

if God is all good, all wise, and all powerful, how did evil come into the world?

power+knowledge=perfection
god creates power and knowledge
god is perfect

nothing happens without a reason, there is no effect without a cause

Leibinz' answer to the problem of evil
this is the best possible world

the philosopher as critic an public activist
clarified the distinction between science and philosophy
fought public campaigns against the perceived enemies of fanaticism and superstition
intellectual stances (rather than sets of doctrines)
liberty, hedonism, skepticism, (Newtonian) empirical science

god created the earth, belief in free will, based on human reason/laws of nature, rejects "supernatural events" (divine intervention, miracles, etc.)

Candide ou L'Optimisme