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The penultimate chapter philosophically asks the reader to decide for himself or herself whether Leibniz is right in his optimistic conviction that “this world is the best of all possible worlds?” or whether instead Schopenhauer is correct and that “this world is the worst of all possible worlds?”
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Lovejoy, A. O., The Great Chain of Being (Baltimore: John Hopkins University, Cambridge, 1936), 144–182.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation, translated by E. F. J. Payne (New York: Dover, 1966), I, 583.
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Mijuskovic, B.L. (2023). Are the Environmental and Existential Conditions of Mankind Improving or Deteriorating?. In: Theories of Consciousness and the Problem of Evil in the History of Ideas . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26405-4_11
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