This volume presents original essays on the ideas of philosophical optimism and the best possible world. It highlights the historical and philosophical nuances of an idea that remains under-treated within the literature despite its long and influential history.
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1. Introduction Justin J. Daeley 2. Optimism in Plato and the Neoplatonic Tradition Katherin A. Rogers 3. Thomas Aquinas and the (No) Best Possible World B. Kyle Keltz 4. Leibniz's Optimism and the Problem of Evil Julia Weckend 5. Rousseau versus Voltaire on Optimism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 6. Jonathan Edwards and the Early New England Theistic Optimism Justin J. Daeley 7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Melioristic Turn in the Optimism Debate Lloyd Strickland 8. Non-theistic Optimism in Recent Philosophy Eric Steinhart 9. The Argument from Addition for No Best World Daniel Rubio 10. An Unsurpassable World Nevin Climenhaga 11. The Best of Everything Graham Oppy
