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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Harmony

The kind of necessity that motivates that you would sin is a contingent kind of necessity. So on the other hand, we have these contingent matters of fact. Their opposite does not imply a contradiction. All of our own actions are like that. God could have created the world any way he wanted. He's all powerful. Can do it any way he pleases. But he chooses in accordance with the law of sufficient reason to say he makes the best possible world. That's another side of this preordained harmony between all things - which seems to be an obvious place to criticize him.

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