Best of all possible worlds

In the philosophy of the early modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), the existing world is the best world that God would have created.

Leibniz's debate on the best doctrine of all possible worlds is now often referred to as Leibniz's optimism but his work Théodicée (1710; Theodicy) is shown in his most complete form I will. Protect the justice of God (see theodicy). Therefore, this argument is based on Leibniz's solution to the problem of evil, or God is omnipotent in the whole world, omniscient, omnidirectional (completely good), evil (including sin and suffering without suffering ) An obvious contradiction between obvious facts. In a rough overview, the arguments are:

Because God is omnipotent and omniscient, we know which world is the best and can create it. And because he is omnipotent, he chooses to create that world.

In the opposite opinion, because the number of possible worlds is infinite, the possible world is not considered to be the best (for a given good world there will always be another, better world). A possible world of good world, and then God will not create the world at all because God has no reason enough to create the world instead of the other world. But since he created the existing world, it must be the best world.

It is easy to imagine that there is no world of evil in the world, so opposed to the idea that the existing world is not the best among all possible worlds, Leibniz tells us that whether the world with little evil can really be imagined I believe it is suspicious. Due to the nature of the interrelated events, any evil world not including the existing world may inevitably contain other larger forms of evil. Furthermore, although this world has evident evil, according to the sacred standard of good, unlike ordinary concepts, it may actually be the best.

Voltaire's most famous piece, Candide, is full of stories phrases. "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what else is it?" Candide asked in Chapter 6. The word "the best in the best world" comes from the philosopher Leibniz, but Voltaire is familiar with repeatedly using this phrase in Candide. Another statement in the novel is that French readers will be welcomed soon: in chapter 16, Candide who dressed in the new world of Jerusalem and his servant Cacambo, a succumer of a succulent Found in the hands: Let's eat some Jesuits "): At that time in the French Jesuits was not very popular, its expression quickly became a slogan

Candide does not believe that Cunegonde is the best figure in all possible worlds, but no one will be with her, rather than a world without problems. The problem is that the best world among the possible worlds of Candide lives in El Dorado with Cunegonde? The answer is "No". It is simply because there are no best worlds in all possible worlds. Frankness will never exist, it will just be better. There will always be something that will make Candide's life better, so it will never be a beautiful world.

Visualize perfection with Candide "Everything is the best possible ..." Imagination is wonderful, perfection and shine are intertwined in a wonderful world - Utopia, guess the absolute beauty of humanity , Harmony and universal tolerance Does this "perfection" mean "the best world"? What do you think that the evil world drawn on "Candide" is reported as "utopia"? The conclusion reached is not safe, as the best of all possible worlds shows that "everything is the best".