Psychology Today | 25.05.2026 22:41
Many people who have heard of Gottfried Leibniz first heard of him through Voltaire’s satirical Candide (1759), in which Leibniz is caricatured as the deluded Dr Pangloss, “the greatest philosopher of the Holy Empire,” a parody that is a hard to get past. Insofar as Leibniz is remembered, it is for holding, in the words of Voltaire, that “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
