Leibniz: principle of sufficient reason
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Who was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
A German mathematician, philosopher, and scientist (1646-1716)
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The principle of sufficient reason
A principle that states that everything in existence must have a cause or a reason for its existence
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What is Leibniz’s main argument?
Any fact about the world must have an explanation
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Explanation for contingent beings
Contingent beings cannot be explained by other contingent beings, making necessary beings required for the explanation of them
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What do contingent beings require that necessary beings do not?
A cause
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What does Leibniz argue is a contingent being?
The universe, as it needs a necessary being to be the sufficient reason for its existence
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