Mystery and reason

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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · religious persecution and toleration · reason and the intellect · natural religion · freedom vs providence · bayle’s objections

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Theodicy primary

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von · 1710-1711
book with much acrimony. But the accused won his case in a Synod. > PART THREE (26/63)

Leibniz continues that Bayle’s critique misses the deeper issue, insisting that inward experience and reason both support freedom and that the “mystery” is actually a mistaken claim about natural religion.

far from finding the mystery incomprehensible, we should comprehend that it was false. It is true that here there is no question of a mystery, but only of natural religion. 295. This is how M. Bayle combats those inward experiences, whereon [306] the Cartesians make freedom rest: but he begins by reflexions with which I cannot agree. 'Those who do not make profound examination', he says (*Dictionary*, art. 'Helen.…