Ep. 253: Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On Gottfried Leibniz’s Theodicy (1710).

Why does God allow so many bad things to happen? Leibniz thought that by the definition of God, whatever He created must be the best of all possible worlds, and his theodicy presents numerous arguments to try to make that less counter-intuitive given how less-than-perfect the world seems to us.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who have one point
0:12.7	said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.
0:15.7	Our question for episode 253 is, why does God allow evil to exist?
0:20.3	We read selections from Godly of Lybe Knits' Theotacy from 1710.
0:25.0	For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:29.0	This is Mark Linson-Mirror, antecedently willing this to be a good podcast, but immediately
0:33.5	willing that we should leave out the heavier theological parts, but finally willing that
0:37.3	all in all it's good for us to choke it down.
0:39.7	In Madison, Wisconsin.
0:41.3	This is Seth Paskin, evil because I'm imperfect in Austin, Texas.
0:45.8	This is Wes Owen trying to participate in the best of all possible podcasts and Cambridge
0:51.6	Massachusetts.
0:53.0	This is Dylan Casey, striving to be the beautiful combination of squares, feminist
0:57.9	literature and Euclid's 47th proposition.
1:00.0	In Madison, Wisconsin.
1:02.3	So, Lybe Knits, we have been overdue to come back to Lybe Knits for some time.
1:06.8	It was episode 6, Lybe Knits' Modedology, and it was Wes' favorite thing.
1:13.0	Why haven't you made us do this earlier?
1:15.0	Lybe Knits was your favorite thing, Wes, or the Theotacy?
1:17.5	It's one of my favorite things.
1:19.4	Well, that's one of us.
1:22.2	I talked to Seth beforehand.
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