Abstract

With the help of Toni Morrison's novels Beloved and The Bluest Eye, Josiah Young questions several claims G. W. Leibniz makes in his Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. Specifically, Young casts doubt on Leibniz's assertions that this world is the best of all possible ones; that God permits evil as a moral necessity; and that the victims of evil either deserve their misfortune or should endure it for "Goodness's" sake.

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