1988
DOI: 10.2307/3328505
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Why Only the Best Is Good Enough

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“…12 He points out that such arguments are of the form of reductio ad 6 See Leibniz (1951) p. 128. 7 See Kant (1978) and Grover (1988). See Basinger (1983), Everett (2000), Grover (2003Grover ( , 2004 and Steinberg (2005), Quinn (1973), Resnick (1973), Rowe (1993), Thomas (1996), and Wielenberg (2004) have each offered arguments that can be seen as supporting premise (5) (and also premise (6)).…”
Section: Is God Required By His Nature To Do the Best Possible?mentioning
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“…12 He points out that such arguments are of the form of reductio ad 6 See Leibniz (1951) p. 128. 7 See Kant (1978) and Grover (1988). See Basinger (1983), Everett (2000), Grover (2003Grover ( , 2004 and Steinberg (2005), Quinn (1973), Resnick (1973), Rowe (1993), Thomas (1996), and Wielenberg (2004) have each offered arguments that can be seen as supporting premise (5) (and also premise (6)).…”
Section: Is God Required By His Nature To Do the Best Possible?mentioning
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“…8 See Kant (1978) p. 137. 9 See Grover (1988) p. 224. 10 Premise (5) of Leibniz's argument has received quite a bit of attention in the recent philosophical literature.…”
Section: Is God Required By His Nature To Do the Best Possible?mentioning
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“…Strickland parte das próprias declarações de Leibniz de que o melhor dos mundos possíveis é "aquele 24 A ideia Leibniziana de que este é o melhor dos mundos possíveis é concebida como uma resposta para o problema do mal (isto é, da suposta dificuldade que a existência de mal no mundo colocaria para a existência de um ser onipotente, onisciente e onibenevolente) em seu livro Teodiceia. 25 Ver, por exemplo, BLUMMENFELD, 1975;HASKER, 1984;GROVER, 1988;GROVER, 1998;GROVER, 1999;HOWARD-SNYDER, 1994;HOWARD-SNYDER, 1996;GROVER, 2004;KRAAY, 2007;KRAAY, 2008;LANGTRY, 2008. 26 Ver, por exemplo, KRAAY, 2008.…”
Section: O Melhor Dos Mundos Possíveis: Leibniz Aquino E a Discussãunclassified
“… See Quinn (), Perkins (: 247), Grover (, ), Wielenberg (: 56–59), Rowe (: 88–142), and Kraay (). Leibniz explicitly rejected the possibility of an infinitely improving series of worlds, on the grounds that this would make God's choice to create violate the Principle of Sufficient Reason (see Blumenfeld [] for discussion).…”
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