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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason - Softcover

Nadler, Steven

 
9780691145310: The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691145318 ISBN 13: 9780691145310
Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men represents a profoundly important moment in the history of philosophical and religious thought.

In The Best of All Possible Worlds, Steven Nadler tells the story of a clash between radically divergent worldviews. At its heart are the dramatic--and often turbulent--relationships between these brilliant and resolute individuals. Despite their wildly different views and personalities, the three philosophers shared a single, passionate concern: resolving the problem of evil. Why is it that, in a world created by an all-powerful, all-wise, and infinitely just God, there is sin and suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people, and good things to bad people?

The Best of All Possible Worlds brings to life a debate that obsessed its participants, captivated European intellectuals, and continues to inform our ways of thinking about God, morality, and the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Rembrandt's Jews, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, as well as Spinoza: A Life and Spinoza's Heresy.

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"The Best of All Possible Worlds is a wonderfully engaging book. Nadler, with his characteristic clarity, has produced a true and rare philosophical page-turner."--Michael Della Rocca, Yale University

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Verlag
Princeton Univers. Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691145318
ISBN 13 
9780691145310
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
314
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