TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leibniz,Gottfried Wilhelm
AU  - Sleigh,R.C.
AU  - Look,Brandon
AU  - Stam,James H.
TI  - Confessio philosophi: papers concerning the problem of evil, 1671-1678 
T2  - The Yale Leibniz
SN  - 9780300138399 (electronic bk.)
AV  - B2591.C62 E5 2005eb
U1  - 214 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - God
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Théodicée
KW  - Libre arbitre et déterminisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Het Kwaad
KW  - gtt
KW  - რელიგიის ფილოსოფია
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-174) and index
N2  - This volume contains papers that represent Leibniz's early thoughts on the problem of evil, centring on a dialogue, the Confessio philosophi, in which he formulates a general account of God's relation to sin and evil that becomes a fixture in his thinking. How can God be understood to be the ultimate cause, asks Leibniz, without God being considered as the author of sin, a conclusion incompatible with God's holiness? Leibniz's attempts to justify the way of God to humans lead him to deep discussion of related topics: the nature of free choice, the problems of necessitarianism and fatalism, the nature of divine justice and holiness. All but one of the writings presented here are available in English for the first time
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