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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:08:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project
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Just to get a little more off-topic...

> Don't forget this:
> 
> "... this is the best of all possible worlds."
>   -- Voltaire

Maybe this was a joke, but you *do* realize that this was taken from
a work of fiction? (_Candide_, which was a satire of Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibnitz' philosophy.) Leibnitz claimed, in _Theodicee_, that the presence of
evil in God's Creation does not mean that God is not perfect, which was
lampooned into 

1. God created the world
2. God is perfect
3. Creation is perfect as possible

In other words, neither Voltaire nor Leibnitz ever really claimed that "this
is the best of all possible worlds."

Perhaps this area would make an interesting research project, too.

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