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Kant Vs Leibniz

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How can God be perfectly good yet allow so much evil to exist throughout our world? Many wonder what is the cause of evil and why there is evil in our world. Thankfully, Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant came up with some insight to answer this question. However, these two leading philosophers have completely different views on the problem of evil. This essay will illustrate what Leibniz and Kant say about the problem of evil and how they contradict one another. Leibniz came up with three issues to prove why God is at fault for the problem of evil. They are; the deprivation problem, God is lenient with necessary evil, and the best possible world thesis. I will be defending Leibniz’s solutions against Kant’s contradicting responses.
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Leibniz does agree that God is the creator or everything and their parts. He also thinks that God is the author of everything that is real in our world. However, if God is the author of everything real and the creator of everything that ever existed then it must make him the author of all the deprivations in the world too. There cannot be no cause for the problem of evil. Everything has a cause, or started from somewhere or something. I think Leibniz would say that you cannot just say evil exists because it is an incidental product made from other products. Evil exists in our world for a reason other than it being a by-product of some other creation. Therefore, because God is the composer of everything and their parts and evil is included in this, this makes (him) immoral and unholy (Stanford Encyclopedia of …show more content…

Leibniz came up with three issues to prove why God is at fault for the problem of evil; the deprivation problem, God is lenient with necessary evil, and the best possible world thesis. Kant on the other hand, found a way to argue against each of these points and try to solve this problem. However, I believe that none of Kant’s objections would prove that God is not the sinner of evil. Therefore, I still do not know how God can be perfectly good yet allow so much evil exist throughout our world. There are so many possible solutions but no one has the ability to prove them. Perhaps this is why we have religion. We give faith in God by leaving all our unknown questions in the hands of (him) hoping, one day, we will have the answers to

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