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	Pangloss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pangloss is a character in Voltaire's novel Candide.
		Pangloss is a follower of, or as many have argued, a caricature or outright satire of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who in his Theodicy theorized that the world we live in is the best of all possible worlds.
		Therefore, Dr. Pangloss was called a scholar by saying that he knew all languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pangloss (455 words)

	Pangloss (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As Candide’s mentor and a philosopher, Pangloss is responsible for the novel’s most famous idea: that all is for the best in this “best of all possible worlds.” This optimistic sentiment is the main target of Voltaire’s satire.
		Like Candide, Pangloss is not a believable character; rather, he is a distorted, exaggerated representation of a certain kind of philosopher whose personality is inseparable from his philosophy.
		Pangloss is ravaged by syphilis, nearly hanged, nearly dissected, and imprisoned, yet he continues to espouse optimism.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/candide/terms/charanal_2.html (282 words)

	Candide Submission #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dr Pangloss believes that everything has a purpose in life, that all is for the best.
		Dr. Panglos is portrayed as an innocent victim of the disease which he received by loving a woman.
		Pangloss, "the greatest philosopher of the province and therefore of the whole world," taught Candide that he lived in "the best of all possible worlds." His theory was that "since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end." Over the years at the castle, Candide adopted dear Pangloss' optimism.
	www.mrgibbonsclass.com /candide (2276 words)

	LankaWeb News
		A bite of a dengue-infected mosquito may seem lethally wicked to the fool, but in the larger scheme of things this God-made device is beneficial in that it punishes the carefree and the indolent in matters of public hygiene.
		The Captain of Team B (representing the Sinhala South!) is none other than Dr (Pangloss) Pieris - who is notorious for his suave ways, his bonhomie with the enemy and his unbridled optimism regarding the 'Peace Process'.
		Dr Pangloss Pieris regards Sinhala Nationlism as extremism of a particularly vile form and his companions at the conference table are more than inclined to agree with him.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items02/041102-3.html (932 words)

	Candide Study Guide / Candide Summary
		Now that Pangloss is not around to explain away every tragedy, Candide wonders how the whole system works in light of the terrible things that happened to him.
		Pangloss doggedly asserted that the miserable world of earthquakes, wars, and autos-da-fé was the best of all possible worlds.
		Pangloss confirms the suspicion that optimism is a counter-intuitive doctrine.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/can/TOP3.htm (1257 words)

	It's an age-old question, the old-age question - theage.com.au
		As Dr Pangloss says, you can be fully educated only if you have full and timely information.
		It was just that commitment that, in the heat of the debate, led Dr Pangloss to suddenly whip out of his briefcase Treasury's unpublished Intergenerational Report.
		"But thankfully," Pangloss concluded, "we have the best of all possible treasurers, who refuses to let us steal from our children, and is showing us how to head off the crisis: give bonuses for babies, superannuation for children, make the disabled work, and make the sick pay more for their prescriptions.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/14/1021002447109.html (864 words)

	Literature.org - The Online Literature Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pangloss, the preceptor, was the oracle of the family, and little Candide listened to his instructions with all the simplicity natural to his age and disposition.
		He concluded that next to the happiness of being Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, the next was that of being Miss Cunegund, the next that of seeing her every day, and the last that of hearing the doctrine of Master Pangloss, the greatest philosopher of the whole province, and consequently of the whole world.
		As Miss Cunegund had a great disposition for the sciences, she observed with the utmost attention the experiments which were repeated before her eyes; she perfectly well understood the force of the doctor's reasoning upon causes and effects.
	www.literature.org /authors/voltaire/candide/chapter-01.html (768 words)

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		By day Pangloss spent most of his time educating Cunégonde, her sister, and Lumiere about how for every effect there must be a cause and that all men are equal, but by night he would retire to his quarters to engage in various experimental physics with Paquette, one of the Baroness’s maids.
		Pangloss and Paquette were awoken from a deep slumber in the middle of the night by Lumiere only to hear news of the Baron and Baroness’s brutal deaths.
		Pangloss turned in panic, only to hear Lumiere’s voice fading away and to see the tall grass swaying from side to side as it was obvious that was where he was being dragged.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~jo732439/candide.html (1351 words)

	PlanetPapers - Candide
		Candide is unable to see anything positive in his ordeals, contrary to Dr. Pangloss' teachings that there is a cause for all effects and that, though we might not understand it, everything is all for the good.
		Pangloss is cured of his disease, losing one of his eyes and one of his ears.
		We see, in contrast to Dr. Pangloss, Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey, is a man of great courage who masters all situations and even searches for new adventures and challenges.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/1237.php (886 words)

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		Pangloss continues his teachings that private misfortunes make up the general good — the more misfortunes there were the more all was well.
		Pangloss assures this is for the best and the ship splits in half saving only Candide, Pangloss and the sailor who was saved by the now deceased Anabaptist.
		Candide replies that Pangloss proved to him that the goods of the earth belong to all men, and according to this, the thief should have left them part of the money and jewels.
	www.home.duq.edu /~arnett/ethxwk11.htm (1239 words)

	Panglossian optimism - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pangloss is one of the chief characters in Voltaire's novel, Candide (1759).
		Dr. Pangloss is a firm optimist holding the view that : 'All things are interconnected in this best of all possible worlds.' From this it follows that 'everything is for the best in the physical and moral world, and that things could not have been otherwise.'
		Dr Panglosse's progress through all this is no less miserable.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec21/artic10.asp (709 words)

	Voltaire’s Candide
		Through all of this, Candide wonders what Dr. Pangloss would have said if he could see what the pure state of nature was like.
		Pangloss, though his life was full of suffering, still defended his position that life was well.
		Pangloss still held the belief that all events were linked together logically on this best of all worlds.
	www.home.duq.edu /~arnett/candide.htm (3383 words)

	Voltaire's 'Candide'; chapter 4 'Dr. Pangloss Again'
		They knocked my Lord the Baron on the head for attempting to protect her; my Lady the Baroness was cut in pieces; my poor pupil was treated like his sister; and as for the castle, there is not one stone left upon another, nor a barn, nor a sheep, nor a duck, nor a tree.
		Pangloss made answer as follows: "Oh my dear Candide, you knew Paquetta, the pretty attendant on our noble Baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of Paradise, which produced those torments of hell with which you see me devoured.
		Pangloss explained to him how every thing was such as it could not be better; but James was not of this opinion.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/voltaire/candide/chap4.htm (802 words)

	Voltaire's 'Candide'; chapter 5 'Tempest, shipwreck, earthquake'
		ONE half of the passengers being weakened, and ready to breathe their last, with the inconceivable anguish which the rolling of the ship conveyed through the nerves and all the humors of the body, which were quite disordered, were not capable of being alarmed at the danger they were in.
		The whirling flames and ashes covered the streets and public places, the houses tottered, and their roofs fell to the foundations, and the foundations were scattered; thirty thousand inhabitants of all ages and sexes were crushed to death in the ruins.
		Pangloss was in the middle of his proposition; when the inquisitor made a signal with his head to the tall armed footman in a cloak, who waited upon him, to bring him a glass of port wine.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/voltaire/candide/chap5.htm (809 words)

	Pangloss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pangloss is less a well-rounded, realistic character than a symbol of a certain kind of philosopher.
		His optimism and logical fallacies are meant to represent the thought of G.W. von Leibniz and other Enlightenment thinkers.
		He is an open symbol of the folly both of blind optimism and of excessive abstract speculation.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/candide/terms/theme_8.html (52 words)

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		Pangloss serves as the source and support in which Candide is so optimistic.
		For example when Pangloss gets hanged and we are tricked into believing that he is dead, but later on we find out that the executioner was a beginner and he didn’t tie the knot correctly.
		Pangloss preaches that everything has a purpose, and that everything is for the best.
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	Bantam Dell Publishing Group: Candide by Voltaire
		The tutor Pangloss was the oracle of the household, and young Candide listened to his teachings with all the good faith of his age and character.
		He concluded that, after the good fortune of having been born Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, the second greatest good fortune was to be Lady Cunegonde; the third, to see her every day; and the fourth, to listen to Dr. Pangloss, the greatest philosopher in the province, and therefore in the whole world.
		One day as Cunegonde was walking near the castle in the little wood known as "the park," she saw Dr. Pangloss in the bushes, giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's chambermaid, a very pretty and docile little brunette.
	www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553211665&view=excerpt (2262 words)

	A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist
		One half of the passengers, weakened and half-dead with the inconceivable anxiety and sickness which the rolling of a vessel at sea occasions through the whole human frame, were lost to all sense of the danger that surrounded them.
		The repast, indeed, was mournful, and the company moistened their bread with their tears; but Pangloss endeavored to comfort them under this affliction by affirming that things could not be otherwise that they were.
		Pangloss was in the midst of his proposition, when the familiar beckoned to his attendant to help him to a glass of port wine.
	www.infoplease.com /t/lit/candide/chapter5.html (851 words)

	Show Plot: Candide (1973): Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for Licensing
		Pangloss explains he is giving Paquette a lesson in gravity.
		Pangloss is hung and Cunegonde faints as Candide is flogged.
		On board ship, Cunegonde confesses her growing doubt in the teachings of Dr. Pangloss shortly before the ship is boarded by pirates, who knock Candide unconscious and carry Cunegonde and the Old Lady away.
	www.mtishows.com /show_plot.asp?ID=000016 (1620 words)

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		Because of his "great knowledge," Candide, at this point a very naive and impressionable youth, regards Pangloss as the greatest philosopher in the world, a reverence that will soon be contradicted by contact with reality (Frautschi 75).
		The name Pangloss is translated as "all tongue" and "windbag." The colloquialism "windbag" implies that a person is all talk, and he takes no action.
		He achieved his goal of satirizing Leibniz by tearing apart Pangloss' philosophy, using Martin as a contrast to Pangloss, showing the destruction caused by natural disasters, and the brutality of war.
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	Star Trek Original Series Sim: USS Eagle - An Unexpected Detour Episode 17
		Pangloss was doing the treatments," he says groggily and confused.
		Pangloss condition is the result of a failed suicide-attempt.
		Pangloss is worn out from the questioning, the stimulants and the battle against his wishes to remain alive.
	usseagle2185.tripod.com /question_episode17b.htm (1927 words)

	FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-Candide by Voltaire-CHAPTERS 5-6 NOTES-Free Book Notes Chapter Summary Study Guide ...
		Pangloss argues that the particular part of the sea is meant for Jacques to drown in.
		Pangloss tries to rationalize about the happening while Candide thinks that it is the end of the world.
		Pangloss continues to argue in favor of his theory instead of making an attempt to reduce the effect of the catastrophe.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCandide13.asp (704 words)

	Musical Cyberspace: Bernstein's Candide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As Voltaire continues reading his story, he takes on the role of Dr. Pangloss, the admired teacher, as he is joined by his four pupils in a PARADE to their 18th-century American-style schoolroom, complete with desks, a flboard, and a picture of the Baron that is reminiscent of George Washington.
		At the end of the class, Paquette is privately tutored by Dr. Pangloss, who teaches her sex and physics.
		The two are witnessed by Cunegonde who asks Dr. Pangloss to enlighten her on advanced physics.
	www.geocities.com /joecable1997/candide.html (1213 words)

	Penguin Classics: Features
		In Candide Dr Pangloss is the high representative of optimism.
		When the group of friends end their tumultuous adventures in Constantinople, and acquire a little garden there, Candide is the one who encourages them to tend it in quietness, no longer fretting over questions (still less endeavours) concerning the best and the worst of things.
		This is why Dr Pangloss, for all that he was a votary of the rigorously logical Leibniz, used an array of such illogical arguments as that we have noses so that we can wear spectacles, putatively thereby proving that in this best of all possible worlds, everything is for the best.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,214419_1_0,00.html (915 words)

	Candide Synopsis
		Wandering among the ruins, Candide began to wonder what could be the good in such calamities, when he suddenly came face to face with his former master Dr. Pangloss, picking the pockets of the corpses in the street.
		Pangloss told Candide that along with the rest of the baronial family his beloved Cunegonde was dead- raped and
		Among the chosen victims were Dr. Pangloss, who was hanged for preaching his heretical philosophy of optimism, and Candide, who was flogged for listening to him.
	sun.menloschool.org /~sportman/westernstudies/first/19/synopsis.html (1622 words)

	Centre College: Centrepiece Online
		Since Dr. Cochran lived at home with his wife and son, just up Walnut Street toward town, his question revealed not an identity crisis but an inattentiveness characteristic of absent-minded professors.
		But red was the color of the day when Dr. Hazelrigg, prepared to continue discussion of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, entered the classroom to discover that each of the coeds had a large red A affixed to her chest.
		Chips, Dr. Pangloss, et al." is the 17th in Paul Cantrell's occasional series on life at Centre, where he taught from 1949 to 1989.
	www.centre.edu /web/alumni/centrepiece/1999/goodbye.html (1265 words)

	Candide / 1956 Broadway Production
		The Inquisition appears, in the persons of two ancient Inquisitors and their lawyer, and many citizens are tried and sentenced to hang, including Candide and Dr. Pangloss.
		He is unable to reconcile Dr. Pangloss's ideas with the bitter events that have occurred, but concludes that the fault must lie within himself, rather than in the philosophy of optimism.
		Candide and Dr. Pangloss appear and are caught up by the merriment, the wine and the gambling, and Candide is swindled out of his remaining gold by the avaricious crowd.
	www.geocities.com /bernsteincandide/56broadway.html (1091 words)

	Dynamist.com
		They lead two intellectual schools—sometimes called the Malthusians and the Cornucopians, sometimes simply the doomsters and the boomsters—that use the latest in computer-generated graphs and foundation-generated funds to debate whether the world is getting better or going to the dogs.
		The argument has generally been as fruitless as it is old, since the two sides never seem to be looking at the same part of the world at the same time.
		Pangloss sees farm silos brimming with record harvests; Cassandra sees topsoil eroding and pesticide seeping into ground water.
	www.dynamist.com /tfaie/bibliographyArticles/tierneybet.html (4775 words)

	chez Nadezhda :: Schumpter meets Dr Pangloss -- first musings
		I continue to be perplexed by the fact that smarter people than me think that a political philosophy that tells you what to think about mandatory recycling has nothing to offer on the question of when one might morally employ daisy cutters and thermobaric bombs.
		At least these folks are worrying their keyboards to death over a moral issue they don't expect Dr Pangloss to solve for them.
		At the least a midwife is needed to bring the child to term, and a milk nurse to nurture the babe while the mother is still weak.
	cheznadezhda.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2004/9/13/139756.html (2518 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Essay
		The name Pangloss is translated as "all tongue” or "windbag.” As the story progresses, though, Pangloss loses faith in the philosophy.
		A contrast to the views of Pangloss is Martin, a pessimist.
		Candide, easily influenced, blindly believes whatever Pangloss tells him and takes almost the entire story to realize that the world is not as perfect as Pangloss makes it out to be.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=2350 (1048 words)

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