The Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz's Philosophical Optimism and Its Critics 1710-1755 by Hernán D. Caro

The Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz's Philosophical Optimism and Its Critics 1710-1755

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #322

Hernán D. Caro

224 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy
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The reign of philosophical optimism, or the doctrine of the 'best of all possible worlds' in modern European philosophy began in 1710 with the publication of Leibniz's Theodicy, about God's goodness and wisdom, divine and human freedom, and the me...

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