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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is one of the two individuals whom I say have "solved the problem of man," in his own words, living in the best of all possible worlds. The foundation of his philosophy is the idea that because God is a perfect being, the world He created must be the best of all possible worlds—a notion criticized by Voltaire in his novel Candide. According to Leibniz, God chose the world we inhabit among all possible worlds because it achieves the greatest variety and harmony simultane