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https://doi.org/10.29159/kjas.40.1.5
Copy DOIPublication Date: Mar 30, 2022 |
This paper discusses the history of discourse on the best of all possible worlds which has resided behind the notions of harmony of interests and utopian worldviews. The notion of the best of all possible worlds, which was theorized by Gottfried W. Leibniz, was intended to show how the God, who is the goodness itself, chose and created this world as the best possible among many scenarios. This way was how Leibniz integrated the Christian theodicy upon the newly emerging demands for human reason from the Enlightenment. The paper also explains the counteractions against the notion of the best of all possible worlds, by Voltaire and Immanuel Kant who tried to restructure the notion into a more realistic one. The paper extends the theoretical implications of the best of all possible worlds to the liberal approach which has become a major paradigm in international relations.
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