Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy

Enlightenment Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

The German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) authored one of the most influential works on the problem of evil: Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil. The term “theodicy”—a combination of the Greek words theos (God) and dike (justice)—can be defined as “justifying the ways of […]

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