For Leibniz, freedom cannot consist in an ability to act without any sufficiently determining cause. That would violate the principle of reason, replacing God’s omniscience and omnipotence with “the chance of the Epicureans” 1 . But, of course, Leibniz is equally concerned to avoid the necessitarianism represented by Spinoza and the “the sect of new Stoics” 2 , and to this end he argues for the...

This article suggest that belief in absolute private property rights is a type of dispossession what rightfully belongs to God and, by extension, the people God. The first section this essay address question so often ignored discussions rights: how did some come be owners place, while others own nothing but their bodies and its labor? Then look into history dispossession. second explained away ...

The claim of the Easter Proclamation that original sin is a “happy fall” (felix culpa) earned us Incarnation Son God seems to virtually contain elements for developing “Greater Theodicy,” according which has been permitted by “in order to” obtain some greater goods. In this paper I introduce four ways in good theodicies can be drawn from felix culpa claim: two “supralapsarian” (a deterministic ...