ABSTRACT

II See The Principl68 of Nature and of Grace, 9 (W. 528). See also Disoourse on Metaphysios, I (W. 290-291), Theodioy, 7 (Huggard translation, 127-128), The Monadologll, 48 (W.542).

, Theodicll, 21 (Huggard translation, 136). I The Mona,dology, 41 (W.541). • Discourse on Meta,physics, I (W. 290-291). ~ The MonGdologll, 84 (W. 550). • J., p. 221: .. Tra,nscenda,nt et per8onnel, Ie Dieu de Leibniz est bien Ie

best of all possible worlds was morally . necessary runs counter to «I'orthodoxie catholique," and that his position on the divine choice lies midway between the blind necessitarianism of Spinoza and the «traditional" indeterminism (ibid.).