Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Monadology, Omnibenevolence, Natural Evil
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Evidence against the world being designed (argument for design) is that it has evil in it, in the sense that if. God created the world it is illogical that he would put such a thing in it. If god is as powerful as perceived and could make the world any way, it is logical to assume that the way he made the world was the best of all the possibilities. Leibniz argues that the world could be better off with some evil in it. Leibniz" reply: argues that the nature of goodness is in nite. God is omniscient (all seeing), god is omnipotent (all powerful), god is omni-benevolent (all good), yet evil exists. One of these things must be removed for all the others to be true, and most people don"t want to argue with the rst three so they dispute evil instead. Principle of suf cient reason - everything happens for a reason.