One of the philosophical and theological summits of the Christian West, Leibniz presents us with a God who in his creation of the world has followed the most worthy plan to deserve his preference. A God who has become the global optimizer of the economy of the universe, who does the best he can. Author: LEIBNIZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM Leibniz (Leipzig, 1646 - Hannover, 1716) was a German philosopher, logician, mathematician, jurist, librarian and politician. He one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He made profound and important contributions in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history.