late-seventeenth-century

Updated: July 14, 2026

Perhaps it is precisely the transcendent glory of divine freedom to be able to work infallibly through free instruments. But so mystical a paradox is not the sort of thing we can expect to appeal to a late-seventeenth-century philosopher. One criticism of Leibniz's argument we cannot refrain from making.

Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil