Principle of Perfection

Discipline: Philosophy

Also called the principle of the best.

Principle of German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) argued that Leibniz did not fully distinguish this principle from that of sufficient reason.

Source:
B Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz (1900), §§14-15

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