Leibniz lived at a time in which there was much speculation about God and His workings. It’s unclear how many people, then and now, bought into this idea. Voltaire’s Candide was a parody of the concept. Three hundred years later, …
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“Universal and Supreme Happiness”
At left we see what the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz thought about the ideal society. On this planet, we have three principal types of government: Authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies, e.g., most of Asia and Africa. Under Putin, …
Spinoza’s God
Spinoza was one of the so-called continental rationalists, along with Descartes, Leibniz and others less often read today. As suggested by Einstein at left, he had a distinctly nontraditional view of God, which got him in a great deal of …
