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Theodicy

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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If God is all-good and all-powerful, why is there evil in the world? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz answers that God, choosing among all possible worlds, created…

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Author
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Category
Religion & Mysticism
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

If God is all-good and all-powerful, why is there evil in the world? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz answers that God, choosing among all possible worlds, created the best one possible: a world in which some evils are the necessary price of greater goods, such as freedom. He defends the harmony of faith and reason, examines free will and necessity, and argues at length against the French sceptic Pierre Bayle.

Context and significance

Leibniz (1646–1716), the German philosopher and mathematician who invented the calculus at the same time as Newton, published the book in French in 1710, and it gave the word 'theodicy' to the language. Voltaire mocked its optimism in Candide through the tutor Pangloss, who insists that all is for the best. This translation is by E. M. Huggard.

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