LEIBNIZIAN OPTIMISM AND THE SCIENCE OF FELICITY

What does it mean to be optimistic? Does it mean that everything is possible? For example, is it possible to have, as Leibniz said, a coincidence between reason and power as opposed to a coincidence between money and power? Wow! That’s a total impossible contradiction, because this would imply that mankind is capable of achieving a state of happiness without being fixated on money. And everybody knows that is impossible. Or is it? How can anyone be optimistic when confronted with such impossibilities? Benoit Odille from Solidarité & Progrès has a humorous answer to such a question.

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