Théodicée
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'''' (from French: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), more simply known as '' , is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz. The book, published in 1710, introduced the term theodicy'', and its optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's Candide (albeit satirically). Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle and based on the author's conversation with Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years.
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- Book.author
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Book.language
- French
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- Théodicée title page from a 1734 version
- Book.pub_date
- 1710
- Book.name
- The Theodicy
- Book.title_orig
- Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal
- Book.orig_lang_code
- fr
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- Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l’homme, et l’origine du mal
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- 1710-00-00
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'''' (from French: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), more simply known as '' , is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz. The book, published in 1710, introduced the term theodicy'', and its optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's Candide (albeit satirically). Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle and based on the author's conversation with Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years.
was the only book Leibniz published during his lifetime; his other book, New Essays on Human Understanding, was published after his death, in 1765.