Theodicy / Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Leibniz was above all things a metaphysician. That does not mean that his head was in the clouds, or that the particular sciences lacked interest for him. Not at all--he felt a lively concern for theological debate, he was a mathematician of the first rank, he made original contributions to physics, he gave a realistic attention to moral psychology. But he was incapable of looking at the objects of any special enquiry without seeing them as aspects or parts of one intelligible universe. He strove constantly after system, and the instrument on which his effort relied was the speculative reason....
Chapters (19)
- Theodicy
- CONTENTS
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
- I
- II
- PREFACE
- PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION ON THE CONFORMITY OF FAITH WITH REASON
- ESSAYS ON THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
- PART ONE
- ESSAYS ON THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
- PART TWO
- ESSAYS ON THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
- PART THREE
- APPENDICES SUMMARY OF THE CONTROVERSY REDUCED TO FORMAL ARGUMENTS
- EXCURSUS ON THEODICY § 392 published by the author in Mémoires de Trévoux July 1712
- REFLEXIONS ON THE WORK THAT MR. HOBBES PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ON 'FREEDOM, NECESSITY AND CHANCE'
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE BOOK CONCERNING 'THE ORIGIN OF EVIL' PUBLISHED RECENTLY IN LONDON
- CAUSA DEI ASSERTA PER JUSTITIAM EJUS
- INDEX
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