CRISTIAN VASCONCELLOS PAOLETTI

As a rationalist thinker, Leibniz demonstrates also a great interest in theological questions of his time, while he incorporates, in many of his writings, concepts and doctrines of Revealed Theology. Despite the absence of a text where his theological positions are explicitly and systematically exposed, the volume of these properly theological writings and the frequent mention of these doctrines even in Leibniz's philosophical texts leads to the question about the presence and role of Revealed Theology in Leibniz's thought, and the relationship between his philosophy and his theological positions, as well as the epistemological status of the revealed truths and the relevance of the philosophical problems and solutions that emerge from them, especially if we take into account the presence of theological concepts in the universe of philosophical discussions, which demand rational justification. Thus, beside Logic – a field in which Leibniz was a pioneer –, Law assumes a prominent role, whether resorting to the methods of jurists and the analogy with the processes conducted in judicial courts, grounding a certain presumption of veracity of Revelation; whether in the defense of divine justice, face of the difficulties that emerge from the content of revealed truths, based on a universal jurisprudence, whose foundation in the eternal truths of divine understanding also gives rise to the defense of a jusnaturalistic view of Law. Thus, more than an interest in theological questions per se, we intend that the path made here will shed some light on Leibniz's epistemology and on his conception of rationality, bringing the opportunity to highlight the legitimate methods of rational justification in a general sense within Leibnizian philosophy