In Voltaire’s “Candide” we the readers follow a young naïve man on a sequence of adventures and travels. Candide the protagonist struggles through his travels to reunite with his love Cuegonde. With the guidance of his teacher, an overly optimistic Dr. Panglosss who has this flawed philosophical idea of “the best of all possible worlds” and other characters Candide slowly realizes through his countless traumatic encounters that those philosophies Pangloss lived by time and time again didn’t benefit the characters. The novel slowly began to suggest that philosophical speculation about the world is useless. Candide states we must “cultivate our garden” suggesting that using practical reasons and hard work are better ways of making sense of the world than philosophy. In the beginning of the novel we see the importance of philosophy in the fields of study for the people especially Pangloss. Candide lives in the castle of the Baron who was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia and we are first introduced to Pangloss who Voltaire describes as an instructor of “metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology”. Pangloss says “It is clear, said he, that things cannot be otherwise than they are, for since everything is made to serve an endConsequently, those who say everything is well are uttering mere stupidities; they should say everything is for the best” (pg1-2). This meaning that everything happens for a reason and the events good or bad were meant to happen for a specific ending. As the story moves along and Candide gets kicked out of the Baron’s home for kissing his daughter Cunegonde, Candide faced many unfortunate events and met several different people. After his displacement he comes in contact with two Bulgarian soldiers and their King. This encounter was one of the first signs that suggest the philosophical thinking created some type of ignorance. Candide was captured and forced to choose his death, wh