Welcome to our quick preview of the second part of episode 253 on Lybnitz's ethyatasy.

I've got about five related excerpts here designed to introduce the concept that evil

is a privation, a lack, it is not actually a thing at all, and then a little bit about

the multilayered character of Will.

In the same way that conference will say, look, grounds for the possibility of experience

include causality.

Lybnitz is saying grounds for the possibility of the world includes evil.

But it's a different thing.

When you invoke the notion of causality, that feels like something present, but in the

case of the grounds for the possibility of the world and that evil has to exist, that's

because of privation is the absence of something.

Can we read a couple quotes here?

In section 20, page 139, it must be sought in the ideal nature of the creature in so

far as the nature is contained in the eternal verities which are in the understanding of

God independently of his will.

For we must consider that there is an original imperfection in the creature before sin,

because the creature is limited in its essence.

Whence ensues that it cannot know all, that it can deceive itself and commit other errors.

So the creature just being the created thing of which we are an obvious thing, but everything

is set up that it lacks the omnipotence that God has just by necessity of not being

God.

So where sin comes from?

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