LEIBNIZ: FROM THE CONTINGENT EXISTENCES TO THE NECESSARY EXISTENCE

Authors

  • Caio Felix dos Santos Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.118965

Keywords:

Leibniz, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Contingency, Existence, God, World.

Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the way by which Leibniz presents in some of his texts an a posteriori proof of God’s existence. To this end, we intend to demonstrate the centrality of the Principle of Sufficient Reason applied to the contingency of the passage to the existence of a given world. Once demonstrated the existence of God by these ways, and still taking into account the Principle of Sufficient Reason - now applied to the existence of this world in particular -, we will discuss the theory of possible worlds and Leibniz’s thesis according to which the Actual World is the most perfect possible.

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Author Biography

  • Caio Felix dos Santos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
    Graduando, Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2016-12-24

Issue

No. 35 (2016)

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Artigos

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How to Cite

Santos, C. F. dos. (2016). LEIBNIZ: FROM THE CONTINGENT EXISTENCES TO THE NECESSARY EXISTENCE. Cadernos Espinosanos, 35, 459-485. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2016.118965