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Originally posted by wilbjammin
If Sisyphus can be happy, so can we. If Candide can be optimistic, so can we.
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I may have misread the tone of your post, but it seems to me that you are making out Candide to be a tale demonstrating the versatility of the human spirit rather than a satire critisizing Leibniz's philosophy of optimism. Voltaire thought that blind optimism like Candide's was absurd, the character that shares his views the most is not Candide but rather Martin, the realist.
In pursuing something - anything - with passion it is hard to go "wrong".
Hitler pursued his final solution with passion and went pretty "wrong" for all parties, himself included.
There truly is no negative to good though...
I fail to see what you mean by this statement, it seems to me that there is always a negative to any good.