The Mod Squad
Lewis Powell has
announced the formation of
The Mod Squad, a group blog devoted to the history of modern philosophy. My first post over there,
King's Theory of Election has just gone live. In the future, I will cross-post everything here as I have been doing with my
Prosblogion posts, but for now I will just encourage readers to check things out over there.
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The Target of Leibniz's "Comments on the Book Concerning 'The Origin of Evil'"
Toward the end of his Theodicy, Leibniz included a section which in the Huggard translation has the title "Observations on the Book Concerning 'The Origin of Evil' Published Recently in London." The French title is: "Remarques sur le Livre de L'Origine du Mal, Publie depuis peu en Angleterre." (Note that, unless there is a disagreement between different French printings, 'London' is a mistake for 'England' in the title, but in the first paragraph Leibniz does identify London specifically as the place of publication.) I just spent a considerable amount of time trying to identify the book in question, so I...
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