This book examines how G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) addresses the problem of evil throughout his work. Paul Rateau explores the originality and implications of Leibniz's theoretical and apologetic project of defending the justice of God (which he calls Theodicy) by showing how it differs from earlier attempts, syntheses, and projects.
This book examines how G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) addresses the problem of evil throughout his work. Paul Rateau explores the originality and implications of Leibniz's theoretical and apologetic project of defending the justice of God (which he calls Theodicy) by showing how it differs from earlier attempts, syntheses, and projects.
Paul Rateau (Ph.D., 2005, Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, France) teaches early modern philosophy at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris, France) since 2008. He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay/SaintCloud, France).
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* Table of Contents * Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. The Existence of Evil * 2. Evil Considered in Relation to Justice * 3. A Vocation: To Defend God's Justice * Chapter 1: Difficulties Concerning the Justification of God in the Years Prior to 1673 * 1.1 Early Reading and the Relation of Justice to Power * 1.2 A Just God, who is nevertheless author of sin? * Chapter 2: The Confession of a Philosopher: Divine Justice and the Necessity of Sin * 2.1 God as Ground, but not Author of Evil * 2.2 Permission of Evil and the Distinction of Two Kinds of Necessity: A Limited Rehabilitation * Chapter 3: Theoretical Changes after the Confession of a Philosopher: Towards a New Conception of God, the Possible and Divine Concurrence with Evil * 3.1 A Revised Theology and Metaphysics * 3.2 The Origin of Evil and God's Physical Concurrence * 3.3 God's Moral Concurrence with Evil and the Relation of Part to Whole * Chapter 4: The Genesis of Theodicy: Its Scientific and Apologetic Aims * 4.1 From the Project of "Theodicies" to the Composition of the Essays on Theodicy: Systematic Necessity and Occasional Cause * 4.2 Theodicy as Defense: Ignorance of Detail, Presumptions and Probabilities * Chapter 5: The Best of All Possible Worlds and Divine Permission of Evil * 5.1 The Thesis of the Best of All Possible Worlds * 5.2 The Moral Necessity of the Divine Choice * 5.3 God's Moral Concurrence with Evil: the Doctrine of Permission * Chapter 6: Evil in Being and in the Actions of Creatures: Reality or Appearance? * 6.1 God's Physical Concurrence, the Origin and Nature of Evil * 6.2 The Inertial Model and its Application to Creaturely Actions: From Peccability to Malice * 6.3 Real Defect or False Appearance: A Dual Conception of Evil * Chapter 7: Human Freedom and Principles of Action * 7.1 The Labyrinth of the Free and the Necessary and the Prerequisites of Freedom * 7.2 From the Ideal to the Real: the Exercise of Freedom and the Maxims of Leibnizian Ethics * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
* Table of Contents * Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1. The Existence of Evil * 2. Evil Considered in Relation to Justice * 3. A Vocation: To Defend God's Justice * Chapter 1: Difficulties Concerning the Justification of God in the Years Prior to 1673 * 1.1 Early Reading and the Relation of Justice to Power * 1.2 A Just God, who is nevertheless author of sin? * Chapter 2: The Confession of a Philosopher: Divine Justice and the Necessity of Sin * 2.1 God as Ground, but not Author of Evil * 2.2 Permission of Evil and the Distinction of Two Kinds of Necessity: A Limited Rehabilitation * Chapter 3: Theoretical Changes after the Confession of a Philosopher: Towards a New Conception of God, the Possible and Divine Concurrence with Evil * 3.1 A Revised Theology and Metaphysics * 3.2 The Origin of Evil and God's Physical Concurrence * 3.3 God's Moral Concurrence with Evil and the Relation of Part to Whole * Chapter 4: The Genesis of Theodicy: Its Scientific and Apologetic Aims * 4.1 From the Project of "Theodicies" to the Composition of the Essays on Theodicy: Systematic Necessity and Occasional Cause * 4.2 Theodicy as Defense: Ignorance of Detail, Presumptions and Probabilities * Chapter 5: The Best of All Possible Worlds and Divine Permission of Evil * 5.1 The Thesis of the Best of All Possible Worlds * 5.2 The Moral Necessity of the Divine Choice * 5.3 God's Moral Concurrence with Evil: the Doctrine of Permission * Chapter 6: Evil in Being and in the Actions of Creatures: Reality or Appearance? * 6.1 God's Physical Concurrence, the Origin and Nature of Evil * 6.2 The Inertial Model and its Application to Creaturely Actions: From Peccability to Malice * 6.3 Real Defect or False Appearance: A Dual Conception of Evil * Chapter 7: Human Freedom and Principles of Action * 7.1 The Labyrinth of the Free and the Necessary and the Prerequisites of Freedom * 7.2 From the Ideal to the Real: the Exercise of Freedom and the Maxims of Leibnizian Ethics * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
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