3. Descartes's Theodicy of Error

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Suarez on God's Causal Involvement in Sinful Acts 10
6. 3. Descartes's Theodicy of Error 35
7. 4. Spinoza: A Radical Protestant? 49
8. 5. Spinoza in the Garden of Good and Evil 66
9. 6. Malebranche on Disorder and Physical Evil: Manichaeism or Philosophical Courage? 81
10. 7. Bayle on the Moral Problem of Evil 101
11. 8. Leibniz and the 'Disciples of Saint Augustine' on the Fate of Infants Who Die Unbaptized 119
12. 9. Leibniz and the Stoics: The Consolations of Theodicy 138
13. 10. Remarks on Leibniz's Treatment of the Problem of Evil 165