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Title: Theodicy
Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil

Author: G. W. Leibniz

Commentator: Austin Farrer

Translator: E.M. Huggard

Release Date: November 24, 2005 [EBook #17147]

Language: English

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Theodicy

Essays on
the Goodness of God
the Freedom of Man and
the Origin of Evil

G.W. LEIBNIZ

Edited with an Introduction by Austin Farrer, Fellow of Trinity College,
Oxford

Translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt's Edition of the Collected
Philosophical Works, 1875-90

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Published 1985 by Open Court Publishing Company, Peru, Illinois 61354.
This edition first published 1951 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited,
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Second printing 1988
Third printing 1990
Fourth printing 1993
Fifth printing 1996

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
Theodicy: essays on the goodness of God, the
freedom of man, and the origin of evil.

Translation of: Essais de Theodicee.
Includes index.
1. Theodicy--Early works to 1800. I. Title.
B2590.E5 1985 231'.8 85-8833
ISBN O-87548-437-9

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CONTENTS

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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION page 7
PREFACE 49
PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION ON THE CONFORMITY OF FAITH WITH 73
REASON
ESSAYS ON THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN THE 123, 182, 276
ORIGIN OF EVIL, IN THREE PA