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Boredom and Theodicy in Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics

Boredom and Theodicy in Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics
"A diagram of I Ching hexagrams owned by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It was sent to Leibniz from the French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet." 

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