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Best of all possible worlds
The phrase "
the best of all possible worlds
" (; ) was coined by the
German
polymath
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 on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
). 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
.
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