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Is GOD, or some GOD-like entity, naturally good, and omnipotent (all-powerful )?

World of Evil. Do-Now. Is GOD, or some GOD-like entity, naturally good, and omnipotent (all-powerful )? If so, how do you explain the evils of the world? If not, or perhaps you don’t believe in ANY god-like entity, what explanation can you provide for the presence of evil?.

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Is GOD, or some GOD-like entity, naturally good, and omnipotent (all-powerful )?

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  1. World of Evil Do-Now Is GOD, or some GOD-like entity, naturally good, and omnipotent (all-powerful)? If so, how do you explain the evils of the world? If not, or perhaps you don’t believe in ANY god-like entity, what explanation can you provide for the presence of evil? Mon, March 3, 2014

  2. the Enlightenment AGENDA • Overview: Essay on Man • Mini-Lesson: Philosophical Optimism • Reading: Leibniz vs Voltaire HOMEWORK • Reading: Leibniz vs Voltaire • Summary: Compose 2-3 paragraphs summarizing the stance of both Leibniz and Voltaire Thur, Feb. 27, 2014

  3. Leibniz vsVoltaire

  4. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Leibniz (1646—1716) • German scientist mathematician; philosopher; theologian Philosophical Optimism • In his famous work, Théodicée (1710), he claims that a good, omnipotent (all-powerful) God must have made the world from best of all possible options —no better configuration is possible • Believing that this is the best of all possible worlds is called Philosophical Optimism

  5. Principle of Sufficient Reason Leibniz (1646—1716) • An outgrowth of philosophical optimism is this thinking is the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which states that everything must have a reason or cause. For every entity X, if X exists, then there is a sufficient explanation why X exists • Leibniz believed everything exists for a reason—everything has a cause. There's an original cause, namely, God

  6. Voltaire Voltaire (1694—1778) • pen name of French philosopher François-Marie Arouet • advocate of freedom of religion and expression, and separation of church and state. Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire anonymously published Philosophical Dictionary (1764) as an encyclopedic consisting of 73 articles —later 120—on various topics (free will, equality, truth, etc.) Most criticize the Roman Catholic Church

  7. Voltaire Voltaire (1694—1778) • He was exiled from many countries due to his beliefs/ writings • Voltaire found philosophical optimism hard to stomach considering all the suffering he had seen in his own life. • He’d watched his lover die in childbirth (with a baby not his own), he’d been in prison, in exile. Suffering and evil cannot be rationalized. In response to Leibniz’ philosophical optimism, Voltaire wrote an essay titled:“ALL is GOOD”

  8. ALL is GOOD

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