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    Knowledge unifies Leibniz's composite theory of the good

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    • 1.Virtue and happiness require both cosmic harmony and knowledge
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    • 2.Knowledge is the element that, combined with harmony, completes the conditions for the good
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    • 1.Leibniz's own texts ground the good in God's will and perfection, making love—not knowledge—the unifying principle of his ethics.
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    • 2.In the 'Felicity' fragment, Leibniz defines the good life through the pleasure of benevolence, which precedes and motivates the pursuit of knowledge.
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    • 1.Harmony in Leibniz's system is ontologically prior to knowledge, existing independently in the pre-established order of monads.
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    • 2.If harmony is self-sufficient as a metaphysical foundation, knowledge becomes a derivative epistemic access condition rather than a genuine unifier of the good.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The harmony of the universe then is a precondition for virtue and happiness, but harmony alone is not sufficient. Knowledge is also necessary. If there were no minds, or if there were no minds capable of knowledge, the universe would be devoid of virtue and happiness. Thus knowledge unifies Leibniz's composite theory of the good. He says,
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