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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Friday, March 28, 2025

Deleuze on Leibnitz

Voltaire on the "best possible world" of Leibnitz (for parallax):
In Voltaire's "Candide" (1759), the concept of "the best of all possible worlds" is satirized and challenged through the character of Pangloss, who stubbornly clings to the idea despite witnessing immense suffering and injustice, ultimately leading Candide to reject such naive optimism

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