LEIBNIZ WITH QUEEN SOPHIA CHARLOTTE OF PRUSSIA

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Leibniz’s book Theodicy is dedicated to Queen Charlotte of Prussia. With the Queen’s support the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin was founded in July 1700

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QUEEN SOPHIA CHARLOTTE

Sophia Charlotte (1668-1705) the sister of George I of Britain, became th first queen of Prussia as the wife of Fredrick I in 1701. She was the daughter of Ernest Augustus, the first elector of Hanover and Sophia daughter of Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia in 1684 she married Prince Fredrick, and greatly encouraged his patronage of learning.

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. . . Leibniz believed that God could have created any sort of world he chose, provided of course that it was possible one, but that as a perfect being himself he choose to create the best possible world. A world containing free will, and in consequence wrongdoing and evil, is better than a world in which free will does not exist; and that is the explanation why a perfect God has created a world in which there is so much evil. ~ Page 98

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