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Single Idea 19351
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
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Full Idea
Insofar as the soul has perfection ...God has accommodated the body to the soul, and has arranged beforehand that the body is impelled to execute its orders. Insofar as it is imperfect and confused, God accommodates soul to body, swayed by passions.
Gist of Idea
Perfections of soul subordinate the body, but imperfections of soul submit to the body
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (The Theodicy [1710], p.159), quoted by Franklin Perkins - Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed 3.IV
Book Ref
Perkins,Franklin: 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed' [Continuum 2007], p.102
A Reaction
Perkins says this is the nearest Leibniz gets to the idea of interaction between body and soul. Perfection and confusion are on a continuum for Leibniz. With such speculations I always wonder how these things can be known. How perfect is my mind?
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16 ideas
from 'The Theodicy'
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19437
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Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan
[Leibniz]
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19337
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How can an all-good, wise and powerful being allow evil, sin and apparent injustice?
[Leibniz]
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19345
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Being confident of God's goodness, we disregard the apparent local evils in the visible world
[Leibniz]
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19325
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God is the first reason of things; our experiences are contingent, and contain no necessity
[Leibniz]
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19326
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God must be intelligible, to select the actual world from the possibilities
[Leibniz]
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19327
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The intelligent cause must be unique and all-perfect, to handle all the interconnected possibilities
[Leibniz]
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19346
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Most people facing death would happily re-live a similar life, with just a bit of variety
[Leibniz]
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19340
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Metaphysical evil is imperfection; physical evil is suffering; moral evil is sin
[Leibniz]
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19331
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Will is an inclination to pursue something good
[Leibniz]
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19367
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Saying we must will whatever we decide to will leads to an infinite regress
[Leibniz]
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19351
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Perfections of soul subordinate the body, but imperfections of soul submit to the body
[Leibniz]
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19344
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God prefers men to lions, but might not exterminate lions to save one man
[Leibniz]
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19335
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Reasonings have a natural ordering in God's understanding, but only a temporal order in ours
[Leibniz]
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19330
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If justice is arbitrary, or fixed but not observed, or not human justice, this undermines God
[Leibniz]
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19329
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The laws of physics are wonderful evidence of an intelligent and free being
[Leibniz]
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19366
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You can't assess moral actions without referring to the qualities of character that produce them
[Leibniz]
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