By TALI SHAROT
Published: May 14, 2011
Why are college grads irrationally optimistic about the future?
I also read this column today in The New York Times, which talks about the human habit of embracing optimism in the face of pessimistic statistics. I found it especially interesting, given that a recent class of mine read Candide, or Optimism, by Voltaire. Candide is itself a satiric reflection of the philosophical optimism popularized at the time by Gottfried Leibniz.
I also wrote about positivism lately, but on Arthur Schopenhauer’s view.
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