Moral Evil and Leibniz’s Form/Matter Defense of Divine Omnipotence

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Leibniz’s form/matter defense of omnipotence is paradoxical, but not irretrievably so. Leibniz maintains that God necessarily must concur only in the possibility for evil’s existence in the world (the form of evil), but there are individual instances...

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Main Author: Hernandez, Jill Graper (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2010
In: Sophia
Year: 2010, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13
Further subjects:B Leibniz
B Omnipotence
B Divine concurrence
B problem of evil
B Moral Evil
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