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

by Steven Nadler

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In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic?mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city's intellectual and cultural riches. He benefited, above all, from his friendships with France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374229988

ISBN13:9780374229986

Release Date:October 2008

Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux

Length:300 Pages

Weight:1.23 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Good & Evil History Humanities Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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