{"id":14758,"date":"2024-03-12T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-lisbon-earthquake-of-1755-a-philosophical-exploration-of-evil-and-leibnizs-optimism\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:32:54","slug":"the-lisbon-earthquake-of-1755-a-philosophical-exploration-of-evil-and-leibnizs-optimism","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-lisbon-earthquake-of-1755-a-philosophical-exploration-of-evil-and-leibnizs-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: A Philosophical Exploration of Evil and Leibniz&#8217;s Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your essay should integrate passages from the texts referred to, along with your own account of the meaning and significance of these passages. It might help to think of your task as explaining the texts to someone who hasn\u2019t read them. Try to make your essay a coherent whole, with a clear, interesting thesis and argument.&nbsp; Any material you cite<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">other than the Hackett collection<\/i><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>needs to be put in quotes and footnoted.&nbsp; This is especially important with any secondary material you might use. If you are referring to the anthology assigned for the course, however, you may simply give the page number in parentheses (though of course quotes still require quotation marks).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">PROMPT: In Lisbon in 1755 an earthquake caused a bell tower to fall on an orphanage, killing a number of young children. Briefly explain how this illustrates the problem of evil. Then explain Leibniz\u2019s answer to this problem, including his argument for that answer. Do you find his argument convincing? Why or why not?<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Since the pdf of the Hacket collection isn&#8217;t organized to make it easy to find the page number, I put the page number in the word file. You can see the word file to quote them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You have to make lots of direct references to the<br \/>\ntext I provided. This is a requirement of the assignment.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your essay should integrate passages from the texts referred to, along with your own account of the meaning and significance of these passages. It might help to think of your task as explaining the texts to someone who hasn\u2019t read them. Try to make your essay a coherent whole, with a clear, interesting thesis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[56],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}