The Pat Flynn Show Part 3: Leibniz's Argument for God's Existence (On The Ultimate Origination of Things)
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Moral Necessity Drives The Cosmological Argument
- Leibniz uses the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) to connect contingent facts to a morally perfect necessary being.
- Moral necessity, not logical necessity, explains why God would choose the best world among possibles.
Free Agency Preserves Contingency
- A necessary, free personal agent can ground contingent realities while preserving their contingency.
- Divine freedom as agent causation avoids modal fatalism by making creation contingent on a free choice.
Metaphysical Laws Underpin Natural Laws
- Leibniz distinguishes metaphysical laws from geometrical or material laws and insists metaphysical reasons underlie natural regularities.
- This metaphysical structure supports a theistic explanation for why laws hold and why science works.