CHAPTER XI.

The Theology of Leibniz.

Leibniz's Three Arguments for the Existence of God 224

The Value of the Ontological 225

The Cosmological 226

The Teleological 226

The Attributes of God 227

The Relation of God to the World, his Creating Activity 228

Creation involves Wisdom and Goodness as well as Power 229

The Relation of God to Intelligent Spirits: they form a Moral Community 230

Leibniz as the Founder of Modern German Ethical Systems 231

The End of Morality is Happiness as Self-realization 232

The Three Stages of Natural Right 234

The Basis of Both Leibniz's Ethics and Political Philosophy is Man's Relation to God 236

His Æsthetics have the Same Basis 237

Man's Spirit as Architectonic 238