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Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Problem With Free Will

Some of the scholastic arguments that he's repeating here have to do with basically it's the problem of once God creates anything at all, it's going to be fucked up. And we have sort of greater insight into our perceptions range farther into the various things that God knows. But since we are still limited, this is what causes us to not see the full picture, do not perceive this world as the best possible world. He uses the analogy of a beautiful painting and look at one little corner of it, it probably just looks like a blob. You got to have the big picture like only he does to see that it's really awesome.

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