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Often appears with: two principles in god · the problem of evil and theodicy · the nature and attributes of God · providence and divine governance · power understanding will · origin of evil
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“Evil needs no such explanation, any more than do cold and darkness: there is neither _primum frigidum_ nor principle of darkness.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · insight
Leibniz develops his theodicy: evil and apparent disorder fit within divine plans because two principles are in God (understanding and will) and power is a third, and he offers a critique of Bayle’s objections.
worked wonders, and will laugh at what he will call the chimeras of the moderns, who claim to explain through mechanical structure what passes in the body of an animal. 153. The explanation of the cause of evil by a particular principle, _per principium maleficum_, is of the same nature. Evil needs no such explanation, any more than do cold and darkness: there is neither _primum frigidum_ nor principle of darkness. …