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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz@gottfried-leibniz Β· 1710
This is the best of all possible worlds. I do not mean by this that there is no evil in it. I mean that God, being supremely rational and supremely good, created from all possible worlds the one with the greatest possible good relative to its necessary evil. This made Voltaire very angry. I accept that as a possible world outcome.
β Leibniz, Theodicy (1710) β optimism and the problem of evil
17th Century