the Best Of All likely Worlds

The Best Of All Possible Worlds

The Best Of All Possible Worlds

The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" was coined by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work It is the centered contention in Leibniz's theodicy, or his try to solve the difficulty of evil.

Critics of Leibniz's postulate contend that the world contains an allowance of suffering too large to justify Optimism. While Leibniz contended that suffering is good because it incites human will; critics contend that the stage of suffering is too severe to justify conviction that God has conceived the "best of all possible worlds." Leibniz also addresses this anxiety by considering what God desires to happen (his antecedent will) and what God allows to happen (his consequent will).Voltaire satirized Optimism in his innovative Candide, in which the eternally optimistic feature Dr. Pangloss continues optimistic, even when his position is so dire that his optimism appears irrational. Voltaire's portrayal of Leibniz's ideas was so influential that numerous accepted it to be an unquestionable description.

For Leibniz, an added centered anxiety is the issue of reconciling human flexibility (indeed, God's own freedom) with the determinism inherent in his own idea of the universe.Leibniz' solution casts God as a kind of "optimizer" of the assemblage of all primary possibilities: Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good—in detail, this world is the best of all possible worlds. oltaire issued Candide simultaneously in five countries no subsequent than 15 January 1759, while the unquestionable designated day is uncertain. Seventeen versions of Candide from 1759, in the initial French, are renowned today, and there has been large contention over which is the earliest.

Candide (1956), a musical satire by Lillian Hellman (book), Leonard Bernstein ...