Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von 1646-1716 creator Farrer, Austin 1904-1968 Huggard, E. M. text utu 2005 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Theodicy" by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is a philosophical work published in 1710. Leibniz confronts Pierre Bayle's arguments that no rational explanation exists for why God permits evil. He proposes that an infinitely perfect God must have created "the best of all possible worlds," with the greatest balance of good over evil. Distinguishing between moral, physical, and metaphysical evil, Leibniz defends divine goodness, justice, and freedom while reconciling human free will with God's foreknowledge. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odic%C3%A9e Release date is 2005-11-24 Produced by John Hagerson, Juliet Sutherland, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Theism Theodicy Free will and determinism BT Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17147 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17147 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133412.0 17147