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Gottfried Leibniz, the philosopher who coined the term "best of all possible worlds" in his 1710 work Théodicée.

The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" (French: Le meilleur des mondes possibles; German: Die beste aller möglichen Welten) was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil),[1] more commonly known simply as the Theodicy. The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy, or his attempt to solve the problem of evil.[1]

  1. ^ a b Caro, Hernán D. (2020). The Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz's Philosophical Optimism and Its Critics 1710–1755. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. Vol. 322. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-21846-8. ISSN 0920-8607.

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