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1345310 No.1345310 [Reply] [Original]

If anyone deserved a beating, it was Voltaire.

>> No.1345313

If anyone deserved a beating, it was my dick.

>> No.1345328

I have Candide on my bookshelf but I haven't gotten to reading it yet. Is OP a faggot, or should I really stay away from it?

>> No.1345345

>>1345328
No, it really is a fucking bore & repeats the same idea for a couple of hundred pages.

>> No.1345352

>>1345328

It should only take you about 2 days tops to read it. Why not just read it and make up your own mind

>> No.1345448

It's very funny, which is odd for something so old. It's also very short, and in the context of its day it was very influential. OP is a fool. Go for it.

>> No.1345527
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1345527

I enjoyed it, but what the fuck do I know.
I mean if FUCKING OP says Voltaire deserves a beating, then he probably did.
I mean, he's posting on goddamn /lit/. That's some serious shit. He probably knows what the fuck he's talking about.

>> No.1345531

Voltaire is a fucking beta. Leibniz is alpha mode. Voltaire actually didn't do anything to disprove Leibniz's theories, his book was just a really long bitchy wall of text being upset about Leibniz's arguments. Simple fucking deductive logic, man.

I can conceive of an infinitely perfect being
It has every perfection
Existence is a perfection
God exists
Omnipotence and omnibenevolence are perfections
God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent.
If God were omnipotent and omnibenevolent, then He would create only the best of all possible worlds.
This is the best of all possible worlds

>> No.1345537
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1345537

Reading Voltaire in English.

Its like reading Shakespeare in french lol

No wonder you find it shitty.

>> No.1345549

>>1345531
>I can conceive of an infinitely perfect being
>It has every perfection
>Existence is a perfection
>God exists

Saint Anselm's Ontological Argument.

>> No.1345552

>>1345549

try again

>> No.1345569

>>1345531

laughinganselm.jpg

>> No.1345601

>>1345552
No, that's the Ontological Argument.
You try again.