pangloss in A Sentence

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C: O sage Pangloss… what a strange genealogy is this!

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In Chapter 4, Candide chances upon Pangloss in the form of a beggar.

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Pangloss, it turns out, has contracted a venereal disease, and is covered in scabs and coughing violently.

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Upon seeing his old tutor in so reduced a state, Candide‘inquires into the cause and effect, as well as into the sufficing reason that had reduced[Pangloss] to so miserable a condition'.

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The novella is an attack on Leibniz's philosophy that the world is the best of all possible worlds, as represented by Candide's old tutor Professor Pangloss, who stubbornly rationalizes a succession of tragic events so that they are in keeping with Leibniz's optimism.

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