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Gottfried Leibniz's Theodicy

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Gottfried Leibniz wrote the Problem of Evil and it revolves around the idea of theodicy. Theodicy means the clear justification of God he makes his argument by proposing that there is always theme of good v.s. evil. He found this intriguing because he couldn’t believe that there is the all-powerful God and that there is still an existence of evil. Leibniz asks why does it always seem that evil is more consistent and seen in this world, when God is almighty one and that he should be the thing seen more. But, if God didn’t exist would evil and that is Leibniz question. It quiet obvious that they both coexist, but it is that either God doesn’t exist or he does yet when it comes to evil it is always around. Leibniz then had to explain why he believes that God allowed evil to exist in this world. He believes that if God did not evil to be here it would not be, but he put it here to challenge to the people. He puts forth 3 types of evil, which are metaphysical evil that is that nothing will ever be …show more content…

I found that while reading and thinking that many people always hit hardships and always ask God to help them, but then they blame him when he does not show them anything. That is where evil comes I feel like there is purpose why he let evil be a part of our lives. What I mean is that if God did not want it be here he could have not put it here, but I feel that he put it here for a specific purpose. That is why I believe that the 3 types of evil talked about towards the end of the reading metaphysical, physical, and moral evil are partly why this world is so corrupt because without knowing sometimes we do some type of evil. That is why I feel the free will was put so that we as human beings believe that we have a choice for the actions that we have done, yet these could always bite in the end because if something goes wrong most people would blame

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