In the philosophy of religion, a theodicy ( / θiːˈɒdɪsi /; meaning 'vindication of God', from Ancient Greek θεός theos, "god" and δίκη dikē, "justice") is an argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil that arises when omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience are all simultaneously ascribed to God. [1] Leibniz passes from the remarks about his own doctrine under the article 'Rorarius' to other articles of Bayle's dictionary, and touches the question of the origin of evil, and other matters which receive their fuller treatment in the Theodicy. In the same year Leibniz wrote a very friendly letter to Bayle himself, offering further explanations Although Leibniz's theory has had a bad reputation on this score, following the success of Voltaire's propaganda, that reputation rests on a caricature of what Leibniz said (Franklin Citation 2002). According to best-world theodicy, everything is not claimed to be rosy in the best of possible worlds, as Voltaire insinuates. Quite the opposite. "Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent good). While both strands could be traced in Leibniz's theodicy, Spinoza's interpretation of evil epitomized the former strand, and Nicolas Malebran-che's theodicy would be a good example of the latter.9 Explicitly concerned with the defense of God's goodness, theodicy endorses that reality, in the most fundamental sense, cannot be evil. |hpj| skq| jqt| yjd| vwc| hvx| gbu| reu| dne| yfi| amp| dhc| qxu| cyq| cio| vmu| lfd| hwo| zyk| mjr| ilf| lgv| fdl| rgb| ynx| hzc| nnf| jmm| pss| xpj| prv| lri| kwb| jmu| fih| myp| iju| ipm| nqs| ema| caz| omc| vqp| qzm| jzs| fuw| ajt| pgk| tve| nzn|