Please complete on time!!! In text citations must be used according to Mia format. Please use the thesis and the sources included in the works cited page written below as the ONLY basis for this research paper and note that this paper is not about the novel, Candide, it is ONLY about enlightenment era philosophy.

Thesis on philosophy: In Candide, Dr. Pangloss constantly states that everything happens for a reason and is for the best; Candide lived by this philosophy, which countered the ideas of the enlightenment era thinkers like Voltaire and Rousseau. The enlightenment was occurring all around the world(not only in Europe) and changed the lives and ideas of many people.

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Sutcliffe, Adam. “MYTH, ORIGINS, IDENTITY: VOLTAIRE, THE JEWS AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT NOTION OF TOLERATION”. The Eighteenth Century 39.2 (1998): 107–126. Web…
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