Category: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  • The Best of All Possible Worlds: Modal Metaphysics and Possibilia, by James Shapiro

    A brilliant and highly productive intellectual whose work spanned over many fields—mathematics, geometry, physics, etc., in addition to his philosophical contributions—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains best known for his rather unique version of “theodicy.” This term refers to an argument defending the benevolence of God and His methods, despite the worldly suffering and injustice that has…