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Title: Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by G. W. Leibniz ISBN: 0-87548-437-9 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Light years ahead of its time
Comment: _Theodicy_ by Leibniz is amazingly relevant and readable considering how long ago it was written. This book is far better than many other works of philosophy which came much later. Very few authors have been able to tackle the problem of the relationship between the existence of evil and the existence of God with as much skill and clarity as Leibniz. The issues discussed in this book are still very relevant today, and the questions concerning evil and the existence of God still have not been answered. That is what makes this work so timeless; if I had been told that it was written yesterday I would have believed it, so relevant are the questions and so readable is the style. This is a must-read for even the most modern and scientifically-minded philosophers. Leibniz adresses questions that are completely independent of science, and can never be answered through science alone. The only way to solve the ancient problem of evil is to continue to think about it in the same way as Leibniz, even though we may never find a solid answer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good argument hidden in an overly long book.
Comment: Leibniz's argument for the origin of evil in human freedom is perhaps the most famous of all the theodicies, and obviously if you want to read the source then this is it. The argument is easy to grasp and convincing - which made me wonder exactly why it required a book of this length (about 400 pages). The answer is that Leibniz sets out his argument within the first fifty pages and the rest of the book is devoted to meeting arguments that other thinkers (particularly Bayle) had made about theodicy. Leibniz really over did the treatment of Bayle's objections, to such a point that Leibniz himself admitted around page 300 that he was growing tired of refuting Bayle.
Fortunately this edition contains almost all of the original appendicies (bar one which set out the formal argument in Scholastic Latin), the first of which is the main arguments of the book stripped down into analytic logical arguments. This takes only 9 pages and to be honest, it's almost worth skipping the rest of the book and just reading this, as it contains all the important points. At the very least I find it very useful when I want to come back and remind myself what was said.
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Title: New Essays on Human Understanding (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Peter Remnant, Jonathan Bennett, G. W. Leibniz, Jonathan Francis Bennett ISBN: 0521576601 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Philosophical Texts (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Richard Francks, R. S. Woolhouse ISBN: 0198751532 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology (Great Books in Philosophy) by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George R. Montgomery ISBN: 0879757752 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Discourse on Metaphysics by G.W. Leibniz ISBN: 0875480306 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1976 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: G.W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students by G. W. Leibniz, Nicholas Rescher ISBN: 0822954494 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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