History-Makers: Voltaire's Satire Masterpiece

Modern Philosophy is way more fun when the author is willing and able to be Hilarious.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
Voltaire's "Candide" translated by Theo Cuffe with an introduction by Michael Wood. The Penguin Books edition not only has a very funny cover page, but it has very helpful footnotes that explain many of Voltaire's references throughout the book. It's my preferred version.
University of Oxford, Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies “About Voltaire” (https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/about-v...)
Rousseau, Letter to Voltaire, 1756 (https://archive.org/details/RousseauT...)

MUSIC:
"Local Forecast" & "March of the Spoons" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
"Silence" from Shadow of the Colossus OST