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Single Idea 21468
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
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Full Idea
The Creator created not only the world, but also created possibility itself; therefore he should have created the possibility of a better world than this one.
Gist of Idea
The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], XII:156)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.48
A Reaction
This is explicitly a response to Leibniz's claim that the Creator selected the best of all possible worlds from the available options. The Euthyphro Question hovers here: must the Creator accept what is possible (the platonic view), or create possibility?
Related Ideas
Idea 2114
This is the most perfect possible universe, in its combination of variety with order [Leibniz]
Idea 19439
God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]
Idea 12954
God's essence is the source of possibilities, and his will the source of existents [Leibniz]
Idea 19326
God must be intelligible, to select the actual world from the possibilities [Leibniz]
The
24 ideas
from 'Parerga and Paralipomena'
21474
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Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation
[Schopenhauer]
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21473
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All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable
[Schopenhauer]
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21476
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A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge
[Schopenhauer]
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21475
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All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge
[Schopenhauer]
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21372
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Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21477
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We don't control our own thinking
[Schopenhauer]
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21478
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Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises
[Schopenhauer]
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21479
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Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority
[Schopenhauer]
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21480
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Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity
[Schopenhauer]
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21470
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For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21485
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The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another
[Schopenhauer]
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21486
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Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing
[Schopenhauer]
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21487
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The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness
[Schopenhauer]
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21482
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The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty
[Schopenhauer]
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21481
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Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices
[Schopenhauer]
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21483
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Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal
[Schopenhauer]
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21484
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A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action
[Schopenhauer]
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21469
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Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact
[Schopenhauer]
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21466
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Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect
[Schopenhauer]
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21467
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Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable?
[Schopenhauer]
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21468
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The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible
[Schopenhauer]
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21471
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If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now
[Schopenhauer]
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21488
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The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21472
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Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people
[Schopenhauer]
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