Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice

In the `Preliminary Dissertation'' of his Theodicy, Leibniz declares himself an apologist for the compatibilist doctrines of original sin, election and reprobation propounded by the theologians of the Augsburg Confession. According to those theologians, man''s actions are determined but man retains the power to act otherwise and therefore is responsible for his actions. Savage argues that Le...