le meilleur des mondes possibles

The logic: “Leibniz’ solution [to the ‘problem of evil’] casts God as a kind of ‘optimizer’ of the collection of all original possibilities: Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good–in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds.”

The conclusion: Let’s say in this case I grant that God is good and omnipotent and omniscient, and so conclude that this must be, indeed, the best possibility that exists. Then I postulate that the problem is with reality. At its best it couldn’t come up with something better than this? Apparently reality is broken.

ok, let’s go fly kites and cultivate our gardens.

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