Optimalism and Theism. A comment on Nicholas Rescher

Philosophisches Jahrbuch 123 (2):566-574 (2016)
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The paper is a comment on Nicholas Rescher's article about Leibnizian optimalism. In this text, Rescher takes up Leibniz's question 'Why is there anything at all?' and defends metaphysical optimalism as a proper answer. While I agree with Rescher's overall line of reasoning I disagree with the way he treats the relation between optimalism and theism. Unlike Rescher, I make a case for the claim that optimalism presupposes theism.

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