Philosophy · Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy
A topic within Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Discourse on Metaphysics
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1686
Leibniz's first full statement of his metaphysics, arguing every individual substance's complete concept already contains everything that will ever…
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Theodicy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1710
Leibniz's only book published in his lifetime, arguing a perfectly good and powerful God could still create a world containing evil, because this is…
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz's first full statement of his metaphysics, arguing every individual substance's complete concept already contains everything that will ever happen to it, and that God chose this world because it is the best among infinitely many possible ones.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Reality is ultimately composed of monads, simple, windowless, soul-like substances with no parts, and the appearance that they interact is really a pre-established harmony God set running at creation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz's only book published in his lifetime, arguing a perfectly good and powerful God could still create a world containing evil, because this is the world with the greatest possible balance of good over evil of any God could have made.
about 13 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026