Best of all possible worlds

The postulate that we live in the best of all possible worlds, is part of the larger philosophical argument of the 17th century, according to God with the cosmos is nothing less than just that could bring the best of all possible worlds. He would otherwise not have been God, the perfect being. The argument falls into a structure with its associated logical considerations that passed over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries with success ( and factored paradoxical results ) core questions of religion to the field of philosophical debate.

Relevant publications on the theorem of the best of all possible worlds were

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's theodicy (1710 ),
• Anthony Ashley - Cooper Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (1699 ), reprinted as Treatise IV of Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (London, 1711),
• Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1734 ) and optimisme as a critical rejoinder to the debate Voltaire's Candide, ou l' ( Minden, l'An de Grâce 1759).

Leibniz's shorthand, the best of all possible worlds was satirized by Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin satirical monologue than a mite on the seventh floor of an Edam cheese.