“…Despite the more than three hundred years that have passed since Leibniz's Theodicy was published, debates on the existence of evil in the world and the best of all possible worlds have not been silenced. On the contrary, there is a great number of present-day literature on this topic, including analyses, commentaries and assessments of Leibniz's arguments on why there is evil in the world and supporting God's choice of the best world of all (Broad, 1975;Franklin, 2002;Grover, 2003;Hadsell, 2019;Hernandez, 2010;Lougheed, 2014;MacDonald, 2018;Nadler, 2008;Silver, 2018;Steinberg, 2007;Strickland, 2005;Strickland, 2017;Rukgaber, 2019 and many others). In a similar spirit to Voltaire's, many contemporary authors, experts on Leibniz's work, voice their opinions.…”