
Part 3: Leibniz's Argument for God's Existence (On The Ultimate Origination of Things)
The Pat Flynn Show
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Is There a Morally Perfect Creator?
If there are determinate contingent facts, then god must be morally perfect. And also, importantly, just to summarize a another aspect of the previous conversation, leibniz does think that this distinction a is enough to prevent a sort of motil fatalism. Even though god could have created it differently, like it's open to divine power, he would not have. That's compatible with divine freedom, and that's all we need to preserve the contingency of the world.
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