What is the difference between Pangloss and Martin as philosophers in Candide?

Pangloss
and Martin have two conflicting viewpoints on life and on the nature of the world. Pangloss is
the champion of optimism (and a mockingof Leibnitz). For Pangloss, this world must be rationally
understood as "the best of all possible worlds"a position through which he would
rationalize away the suffering and misery that surrounds him. At times, this philosophy even
forms a kind of willful delusion.

In addition, there is a kind of irrational
absurdity that underlies Pangloss's demonstrations. We see this on display in the first chapter,
where he gives a lengthy argument to demonstrate that, just as this is the best of all possible
worlds, so too is the Baron's castle the best of all possible castles, but this entire line of
argumentation amounts to nonsense. Pangloss...