The Best of All Possible Worlds?: Leibniz's Philosophical Optimism and its Critics 1710-1755

Boston: Brill (2020)
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The first comprehensive survey of the criticisms of Leibniz's philosophical optimism in the first half of the eighteenth century, when what has been called the ‘debacle of the perfect world’ first began.

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Hernan Caro
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Schopenhauer's Pessimism.Byron Simmons - 2023 - In David Bather Woods & Timothy Stoll (eds.), The Schopenhauerian mind. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 282-296.

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