1744 Leibniz Essays on THEODICY Philosophy Humanism Free Will Good v Evil RARE

1744 Leibniz Essays on THEODICY Philosophy Humanism Free Will Good v Evil RARE

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a 17^th-century German philosopher whose ideas of ‘best of all possible worlds’ was a landmark attempt to solve all of the world’s evils.

Originally published in 1710, ‘Essays on Theodicy’ was one of Leibniz most well-known works and was the only book by Leibniz to be published during his lifetime. It was the first work to introduce the term ‘theodicy.’ Leibniz sought to provide a new, optimistic approach to curing all of the world’s evils. He claimed that human free will, against God’s true goodness, was the root cause of the world’s evil.

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LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Herrn Gottfried Wilhelms Freyherrn von Leibnitz Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Güte Gottes, Freyheit des Menschen, und vom Ursprunge des Bösen, bey dieser vierten Ausgabe durchgehends verbessert, auch mit verschiedenen Zusätzen und Anmerkungen vermehrt von Johann Christoph Gottscheden

Hannover ; Leipzig : In Verlag sel. Nicol. Försters und Sohns Erben, 1744.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [24], 64, 843, [53]
  • Signatures: *¹², **⁸, ***², A-R¹², S⁸, T-Y¹².
• References: Ziegenfuss II, 32
• Language: German
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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