Best of all possible worlds
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The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de
Gottfried Leibniz, the philosopher who coined the term "best of all possible worlds" in his 1710 work Théodicée.
Theodicy
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A theodicy, meaning 'vindication of God', is an argument in the philosophy of religion that attempts to resolve the problem of evil, which arises when all power and all goodness are attributed to God
Best of all possible worlds
…more commonly known simply as the Theodicy. The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy, or his attempt to solve the problem of evil. In Leibniz's works, the argument about the best of all possible worlds appears in the context of his…
Emmanuel Levinas, a French Jewish philosopher