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Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)

17 chapters, about 174,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. I 10,900 words
2. II 6,100 words
3. PREFACE 30,300 words
4. PART ONE 23,200 words
5. PART TWO 37,800 words
6. FIRST SYLLOGISM 100 words
7. SECOND SYLLOGISM 300 words
8. PART THREE 40,000 words
9. ANSWER 500 words
10. ANSWER 600 words
11. ANSWER 800 words
12. ANSWER 500 words
13. ANSWER 500 words
14. ANSWER 200 words
15. ANSWER 200 words
16. ANSWER 600 words
17. 392 21,400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Action at a distance
• Celestial mechanics
• Charlemagne
• Creatio ex nihilo
• Differential equation
• Francis Xavier
• Free will
• Identity of indiscernibles
• Mind
• Momentum
• Original sin
• Predestination
• Real number
• Substantial form
• Tacitus
• Tertullian

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