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+title: Leibniz's Theodicy
+published: 2024-12-03
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+  Leibnizian idea of perfectibility made Germany so proliferate at contributing genius to the world. His Philosophy
+  guided German to constantly push themselves to the endless next levels of human perfection. This I believe partially
+  contributed the unbelievable warfare technologies during World War II, such as Tiger and King Tiger
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+In his treatise on page 138 of the _Thodicy_, Leibniz wrote
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+> 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.
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+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
+[The Principal of Sufficient Reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_sufficient_reason). Evil can exist in a
+perfect world because it has sufficient reason to be there. In fact the evil is necessary. He argues this in a few ways.
+Evil is necessary for a true type of free will. For free will to be truly admirable the individual needs to be able to
+choose from a full range of options (not just good ones). He also says that some ultimate goods (like free will, but we
+can think of others like courage, forgiveness, compassion) need suffering in order to exist. The evil is necessary. So
+God would allow for these evils in order to make greater good possible[^1].
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+Leibniz is a very interesting Philosopher
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+[^1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1so41y/comment/cdziue3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button