Episode #038 ... Leibniz pt. 2 - The Best of All Possible Worlds

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this episode of the podcast, we continue our discussion of Gottfried Leibniz. First, we delve more into the feud between Leibniz and Isaac Newton, which we briefly mentioned last week. Next, we ask ourselves why God sometimes allows Steve Buschemi to murder innocent hitchhikers and why this question is so crucial to Leibniz. Finally, we return to the issue of free will vs. determinism and wonder whether we’re ever actually free to decide what kind of cheese to buy. All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This! Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.4	So got freed livenants versus Sir Isaac Newton.
0:44.0	It really is one of the biggest Twitter feuds in human history, all right?
0:47.6	Sure you got the whole who invented calculus first thing, and that was a big deal.
0:52.8	But that would be what people wrote about in the tabloids back then, if they had tabloids.
0:57.2	One issue certainly was a high profile issue, but it was far from the extent of their
1:01.4	disagreements with each other.
1:03.6	On many issues they're seen as two profoundly genius intellectuals who hold very different
1:09.2	opinions that often contradict each other, and these disagreements run deep, you guys,
1:15.2	even down to the foundation of reality itself.
1:19.8	We're all very familiar with the Newtonian model of the universe.
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