Theodicy / Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil

by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicy

Essays on
the Goodness of God
the Freedom of Man and
the Origin of Evil

G.W. LEIBNIZ

Edited with an Introduction by Austin Farrer, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

Translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt's Edition of the Collected Philosophical Works, 1875-90

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Published 1985 by Open Court Publishing Company, Peru, Illinois 61354.

This edition first published 1951 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London.

Second printing 1988

Third printing 1990

Fourth printing 1993

Fifth printing 1996

Printed and bound in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Theodicy: essays on the goodness of God, the

freedom of man, and the origin of evil.

Translation of: Essais de Théodicée.

Includes index.

1. Theodicy—Early works to 1800. I. Title.

B2590.E5 1985 231'.8 85-8833

ISBN O-87548-437-9

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