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Theodicy

Theodicy

Theodicy

Author:
Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Part 27
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08-15-2023

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 151 of his _Reply to the Questions of a Provincial_ (vol. III, pp. 900, 901).
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter II anatomizes evil, dividing it as we do into metaphysical, physical and moral. Metaphysical evil consists in imperfections, physical evil in suffering and other like troubles, and moral evil in sin. All these evils exist in G.o.d"s work; Lucretius thence inferred that there is no providence, and he denied that the world can be an effect of divinity:
Chapter III and observes, as St. Augustine does, that creatures are imperfect, since they are derived from nothingness, whereas G.o.d producing a perfect substance from his own essence would have made thereof a G.o.d. This gives him occasion for making a little digression against the Socinians. But someone will say, why did not G.o.d refrain from producing things, rather than make imperfect things? The author answers appositely that the abundance of the goodness of G.o.d is the cause. He wished to communicate himself at the expense of a certain fastidiousness which we a.s.sume in G.o.d, imagining that imperfections offend him. Thus he preferred that there should be the imperfect rather than nothing. But one might have added that G.o.d has produced indeed the most perfect whole that was possible, one wherewith he had full cause for satisfaction, the imperfections of the parts serving a greater perfection in the whole. Also the observation is made soon afterwards, that certain things might have been made better, but not without other new and _perhaps_ greater disadvantages. This _perhaps_ could have been omitted: for the author also states as a certainty, and rightly so, at the end of the chapter, _that it appertains to infinite goodness to choose the best_; and thus he was able to draw this conclusion a little earlier, that imperfect things will be added to those more perfect, so long as they do not preclude the existence of the more perfect in as great a number as possible. Thus bodies were created as well as spirits, since the one does not offer any obstacle to the other; and the creation of matter was not unworthy of the great G.o.d, as some heretics of old believed, attributing this work to a certain Demogorgon.
Chapter 27

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