LEIBNITZ: Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liber - Lot 24

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LEIBNITZ: Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liber - Lot 24
LEIBNITZ: Essais de Théodicée sur la Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de l'Homme et l'origine du mal. amsterdam, Changuion, 1747. 2 vol. in-12, half calf post, spine ribbed and decorated (19th century binding signed Belz Niedrée). The 332 pages of volume I. include the life of Leibniz written by Jaucourt, the bibliography of his writings and the author's introduction to this work, a very nice copy. The author, born in Leipzig (1646-1716), published his first work at the age of 20, "De arte combinatoria", and became acquainted with the scholars and thinkers of his time, such as Pascal, Huygens, Spinoza. He discovered at the same time as Isaac Newton the main rules of the infinitesimal calculus and is considered as the inventor of what will become later the calculator. In his various works such as "New Essays on Human Understanding" (1704), "Essays on the Goodness of God" (1710), "My Life" (1711), "Theology" (1712) and "Theology" (1713), Spinoza's work is considered to be one of the most important works in the world. (1710), ''Monadology" (1714), he develops a mathematical and philosophical argumentation and shows that God, infinite being, is the creator of the world. Formed by an infinite number of monads between which God has pre-established a harmony, the world offers itself to man through an infinite number of possible points of view, which Leibniz tries to articulate with the help of a metamathematics where truths are stated from defined logical rules. Thus, following the example of Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza or Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, Leibniz develops his own pantheistic philosophical concept. It is in this work that the author coined the term "theodicy" to designate the justification of God's goodness against the arguments drawn from the existence of evil in our world, and subsequently to refute openly atheistic or dualist doctrines that rely on these arguments. This term will be used by Kant. A good copy in an elegant binding signed Belz-Niédrée
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