diff --git a/src/content/posts/leibniz-theodicy/index.md b/src/content/posts/leibniz-theodicy/index.md index 1fa4cfa99..926eaed3b 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/leibniz-theodicy/index.md +++ b/src/content/posts/leibniz-theodicy/index.md @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ draft: false In his treatise on page 138 of the _Thodicy_, Leibniz wrote -> Hence the conclusion that God wills all good in himself antecedently, that he wills the best consequently as an end, +> _Hence the conclusion that God wills all good in himself antecedently, that he wills the best consequently as an end, > that he wills what is indifferent, and physical evil, sometimes as a means, but that he will only permit > moral evil as the sine quo non or as a hypothetical necessity which connects it with the best. Therefore the -> consequent will of God, which has sin for its object, is only permissive. +> consequent will of God, which has sin for its object, is only permissive._ Leibniz thinks that the world that we live in is ABSOLUTELY the best possible world because it was created by a perfect God. That means that there is no "excess" evil; evil always serves some sort of purpose. This has a lot to do with