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Single Idea 19437
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief
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Full Idea
Not only cares and labours but also prayers are useful; God having had these prayers in view before he regulated things.
Gist of Idea
Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (The Theodicy [1710], Abridge III)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.514
A Reaction
Hm. I'm struggling with this one. So I can't skip prayers today, because God has foreseen them and included them in his great plan? Hard to motivate yourself, like starting a game of chess after you've already been declared the winner.
The
16 ideas
from 'The Theodicy'
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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