The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

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    A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason In The Best of All Possible Worlds, Steven Nadler tells the story of a clash. The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil [Steven Nadler] on donnsboatshop.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In the spring of.

    What or who is God? Leibniz, Arnauld, and Malebranche pursued these questions with a passion and intensity that Nadler nimbly captures. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime.

    The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil by Steven Nadler

    That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: Despite their wildly different views and personalities, the three philosophers shared a single, passionate concern: Why is it that, in a world created by an allpowerful, 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?

    This is the story of a clash between radically divergent worldviews. But it is also a very personal story. At its heart are the dramatic—and often turbulent—relationships between three brilliant and resolute individuals.

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    In this lively and engaging book, Steven Nadler 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. Read more Read less. Customers who bought this item also bought.

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    There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This is a brilliant book, drawn from Nadler's extensive works on Spinoza, Malebranche, and so on. It is a model of what a book like this should be: Like "The Courtier and the Heretic" it is one of a few books that weaves together philosophy and personal history in a very readable way. While the book's main theme is possible worlds, it very quickly escalates into the nature of rationality, the ontological status of ethical rules, the nature of evil the theodicy problem and so on.

    Every turn of the argument, which appears on the surface to be about obscure 17th century discussions of faith and grace, raises a raft of contemporary questions. This period the ss is generally understudied though it has revived over the past few years with the controversy over Jonathan Israel's work on the Radical Enlightenment.

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    Paul Hazard's masterpiece, the European Mind, from a long time ago covers this terrain supplemented more recently by Margaret Jacob, and at least the first volume of Israel's trilogy, Radical Enlightenment. There is also a Cambridge Companion to Malebranche edited by Nadler , which can be recommended.

    No praise is too high for this book. There seems to have been a mix-up in my order.

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    Nadler - - Princeton University Press. God is nature, there is no higher purpose. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. But do these common laws dictate the subsequent possible actions God can take? A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil 3. A bit long winded but still a good introduction to mostly Leibniz and rather little on Voltaire or others.

    I received one yesterday and one today. Despite their wildly different views and personalities, the three philosophers shared a single, passionate concern: Why is it that, in a world created by an allpowerful, 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? This is the story of a clash between radically divergent worldviews. But it is also a very personal story. At its heart are the dramatic—and often turbulent—relationships between three brilliant and resolute individuals.

    In this lively and engaging book, Steven Nadler 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.

    If you enjoy reading about the history of philosophy, this is a great book. It presents the history of ideas, and the strange ways that thoughts come about. If you're not interested in the subject A good example of popular philosophy, this about the great debate between Antoine Arnauld, Nicolas Malebranche, and Gottfried Leibniz about the nature of good and evil.

    Readable to the layman while still digging quite deeply into the philosophical discussions.