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- catalog abstract ""In order to be truly free, must you act arbitrarily? If an event did not happen, could it have happened? Since there is evil, and God could have made the world without evil, did God fail to pick the best course? Grappling with such simple£yet still intriguing£puzzles, Leibniz was able to present attractively his new theories of the real and the phenomenal, freewill and determinism, and the relation between minds and bodies. Theodicy was Leibniz's only book-length work to be published in his lifetime, and for many years the work by which he was known to the world. Fully at home with the latest scientific advances, Leibniz ultimately rejected the new atomistic philosophies of Descartes, Gassendi, and Hobbes, and drew upon the old cosmology of Aristotelian scholasticism. There could be no conflict, he argued, between faith and reason, freedom and necessity, natural and divine law. Ingeniously defending his postulate of pre-established harmony, Leibniz made important advances in the precise analysis of concepts"--Publisher description.".
- catalog alternative "Essais de théodicée. English".
- catalog contributor b469071.
- catalog contributor b469072.
- catalog contributor b469073.
- catalog created "1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1985.".
- catalog description ""In order to be truly free, must you act arbitrarily? If an event did not happen, could it have happened? Since there is evil, and God could have made the world without evil, did God fail to pick the best course? Grappling with such simple£yet still intriguing£puzzles, Leibniz was able to present attractively his new theories of the real and the phenomenal, freewill and determinism, and the relation between minds and bodies. Theodicy was Leibniz's only book-length work to be published in his lifetime, and for many years the work by which he was known to the world. Fully at home with the latest scientific advances, Leibniz ultimately rejected the new atomistic philosophies of Descartes, Gassendi, and Hobbes, and drew upon the old cosmology of Aristotelian scholasticism. There could be no conflict, he argued, between faith and reason, freedom and necessity, natural and divine law. Ingeniously defending his postulate of pre-established harmony, Leibniz made important advances in the precise analysis of concepts"--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "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, in three parts -- Appendices -- Summary of the controversy, reduced to formal arguments -- Excursus on theodicy -- 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.".
- catalog extent "448 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0875484379 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Open Court classics".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "1985.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Pub. Co.,".
- catalog subject "B2590 .E5 1985".
- catalog subject "Theodicy Early works to 1800.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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, in three parts -- Appendices -- Summary of the controversy, reduced to formal arguments -- Excursus on theodicy -- 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.".
- catalog title "Essais de théodicée. English".
- catalog title "Theodicy : essays on the goodness of God, the freedom of man, and the origin of evil / G.W. Leibniz ; edited, with an introduction by Austin Farrer ; translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt's edition of the Collected philosophical works, 1875-90.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".