The best of all possible worlds? : Leibniz's philosophical optimism and its critics 1710-1755
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The best of all possible worlds? : Leibniz's philosophical optimism and its critics 1710-1755
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 322）
Brill, c2020
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Leibniz's philosophical optimism and its critics 1710-1755
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index
Contents of Works
- The Theodicy and Leibniz's philosophical optimism
- Eternal truths, the choice of the best, and the almighty reality of sin : Budde and Knoerr's Doctrinae orthodoxae de origine mali (1712)
- A Jesuit attacks : Louis-Bertrand Castel's review of the Theodicy in the Journal de Trévoux (1737)
- Banning the best world, God's (supposed) freedom, and the principle of sufficient reason : Christian August Crusius's criticism of optimism (1745)
- The prize-contest on optimism of the Prussian Academy of Sciences : Adolf Friedrich Reinhard's Examen de l'optimisme (1755)
- Early counter-optimism : main arguments and the nature of the conflict
