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Lubinus, Eilhard

Born: 24 March 1565, Westerstede (Oldenburg)

Died: 2 June 1621, Rostock

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The classicist, cartographer, and Lutheran theologian Eilhard Lubinus taught classical poetry and theology at the University of Rostock. In his philosophical work Phosphorus (Phosphorus, sive de Prima Causa et natura mali tractatus hypermetaphysicus. In quo multorum gravissimae & dubitationes tolluntur, & errores deteguntur. Rostochii: Ferberianus, 1596), Lubinus was influenced by Platonism and Neoplatonism when he formulated a conception of theodicy based on the identification of evil with the nothing from which the world was created. Lubinus’s theory was accused of Manichean dualism considering being and the nothing, and consequently good and evil, as two primordial principles, although Lubinus refutes this interpretation by means of a negative specification of evil. His conception forms a background for Leibniz’s theory of theodicy.

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  1. Centre for Renaissance Texts, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Křížkovského 12, 771 81, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Nejeschleba

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Nejeschleba, T. (2017). Lubinus, Eilhard. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_562-1

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