“The Best Of All Possible Worlds”

The phrase comes from the early modern philosopher, G.W. Leibniz, used in his book Theodicy – though it was made famous when Voltaire later mocked it in Candide. Marc E. Bobro unpacks what it means: In the book, Leibniz defines “world” as “the whole succession and the whole agglomeration of all existent things, lest it […]

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