Book · 1710 · Nonfiction

Philosophical Essays

Name: Philosophical Essays
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Hackett Pub. Co. · 366 pages

★ 6.3 editorial score

Reality is made of monads, mind-like simple substances with no windows, whose perceptions God synchronized in advance. His conclusion that ours is the optimal world drew Voltaire's ridicule in Candide.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Existence of God Problem of evil God

Time

1710Depicts Scientific Revolution

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