01 • Aspects of Voltaire 02 • Voltaire & English thought (Newton; Locke) 03 • Voltaire & two Germans: Leibniz; Frederick II of Prussia 04 • Candide as a picaresque conte (tale) with preceptors (Pangloss; Martin) 05 • Pangloss teaches philosophical optimism (theodicy) 06 • Candide’s experience of international warfare 07 • Candide’s experience of the Lisbon earthquake-tsunami (1755) END OF LECTURE