Optimism and the Best Possible World

A Philosophical History
Herausgeber: Daeley, Justin J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents original essays on the ideas of philosophical optimism and the best possible world. It highlights the historical and philosophical nuances of an idea that remains under-treated within the literature despite its long and influential history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781032463100
• ISBN-10: 1032463104
• Artikelnr.: 71847876

Autorenporträt

Justin J. Daeley teaches philosophy for Liberty University (online), Lynchburg Virginia, USA. Daeley specializes in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and Leibniz studies. He has published in academic journals like Sophia, Religious Studies, Philosophia Christi, and The Leibniz Review. His most recent book publication is Why God Must Do What Is Best: A Philosophical Investigation of Theistic Optimism (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Justin J. Daeley 2. Optimism in Plato and the Neoplatonic
Tradition Katherin A. Rogers 3. Thomas Aquinas and the (No) Best Possible
World B. Kyle Keltz 4. Leibniz's Optimism and the Problem of Evil Julia
Weckend 5. Rousseau versus Voltaire on Optimism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
6. Jonathan Edwards and the Early New England Theistic Optimism Justin J.
Daeley 7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Melioristic Turn in the
Optimism Debate Lloyd Strickland 8. Non-theistic Optimism in Recent
Philosophy Eric Steinhart 9. The Argument from Addition for No Best World
Daniel Rubio 10. An Unsurpassable World Nevin Climenhaga 11. The Best of
Everything Graham Oppy