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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_283
dc.contributor.author	Di Bella Stefano
dc.title	Tales of Destiny. Logic and Rhetoric in Leibniz’s Myths for Theodicy
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Leibniz’s theodicean arguments also make room for narrative structures such as stories or fables. Does this move simply meet the rhetorical needs of a popular exposition, or does it express some deeper constraint to illustrate through a narrative structure what cannot be wholly captured by the resources of demonstrative reason? A comparative analysis of two relevant texts – the fable of Sextus at the end of Theodicy and the less-known tale in De libertate, fato, gratia Dei – reveals the variety of images (music, books, buildings etc.) used by Leibniz to represent the original choice among different series of things, or worlds. These narrative texts actually provide valuable indications about Leibniz’s view on such crucial topics as counterfactuals, world-bound individuals, the structure of individual and universal history, and its representation.
dc.relation.ispartof	Philosophica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-06-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-084-6/tales-of-destiny/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-083-9/PHIL-2-1
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8933
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-8925
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-084-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-083-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Divine Choice
dc.subject	Divine Choice
dc.subject	Fables
dc.subject	Fables
dc.subject	Possible Worlds
dc.subject	Possible Worlds

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Tales of Destiny

Logic and Rhetoric in Leibniz’s Myths for Theodicy

Stefano Di Bella Università di Milano

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Leibniz’s theodicean arguments also make room for narrative structures such as stories or fables. Does this move simply meet the rhetorical needs of a popular exposition, or does it express some deeper constraint to illustrate through a narrative structure what cannot be wholly captured by the resources of demonstrative reason? A comparative analysis of two relevant texts – the fable of Sextus at the end of Theodicy and the less-known tale in De libertate, fato, gratia Dei – reveals the variety of images (music, books, buildings etc.) used by Leibniz to represent the original choice among different series of things, or worlds. These narrative texts actually provide valuable indications about Leibniz’s view on such crucial topics as counterfactuals, world-bound individuals, the structure of individual and universal history, and its representation.

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978-88-6969-084-6

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978-88-6969-083-9

Keywords: Possible Worlds • Divine Choice • Fables

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-083-9/PHIL-2-1

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