“We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
Voltaire’s famous novel
Candide satirizes this optimistic view. And looking around you right now you may wonder how anyone could actually believe it. But
Leibniz
[wiki] believed that before creation God contemplated every possible
way the universe could be and chose to create the one in which we live
because it’s the best.
The principle of sufficient reason holds
that for everything, there must be sufficient reason why it exists. And
according to Leibniz the only sufficient reason for the world we live in
is that God created it as the best possible universe. God could have
created a universe in which no one ever did wrong, in which there was no
human evil, but that would require humans to be deprived of the gift of
free wills and thus would not be the best possible world. Vita vivenda
The principle of sufficient reason holds
that for everything, there must be sufficient reason why it exists. And
according to Leibniz the only sufficient reason for the world we live in
is that God created it as the best possible universe. God could have
created a universe in which no one ever did wrong, in which there was no
human evil, but that would require humans to be deprived of the gift of
free wills and thus would not be the best possible world. Vita vivenda
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