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The Consequences of Ideas

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Thales

2. Monism and Pluralism

Monism and Pluralism

3. Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Zeno

Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Zeno

Socrates

5. Plato (Part 1)

Plato (Part 1)

6. Plato (Part 2)

Plato (Part 2)

7. Aristotle (Part 1)

Aristotle (Part 1)

8. Aristotle (Part 2)

Aristotle (Part 2)

9. Plotinus and Neo-Platonism

Plotinus and Neo-Platonism

Augustine

Anselm

12. Aquinas (Part 1)

Aquinas (Part 1)

13. Aquinas (Part 2)

Aquinas (Part 2)

14. The Renaissance Revolution

The Renaissance Revolution

Descartes

16. Descartes and "Cause and Effect"

Descartes and "Cause and Effect"

Leibniz

Pascal

Locke

20. Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 1)

Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 1)

21. Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 2)

Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 2)

22. Berkeley and Empiricism

Berkeley and Empiricism

23. Hume (Part 1)

Hume (Part 1)

24. Hume (Part 2)

Hume (Part 2)

25. The Enlightenment (Part 1)

The Enlightenment (Part 1)

26. The Enlightenment (Part 2)

The Enlightenment (Part 2)

27. Kant (Part 1)

Kant (Part 1)

28. Kant (Part 2)

Kant (Part 2)

Hegel

Marx

31. Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard

Nietzsche

33. Sartre and Heidegger

Sartre and Heidegger

Russell

35. Modern Philosophers

Modern Philosophers

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Leibniz

If God is perfect, how can His handiwork be so imperfect? How can a good God create a world with evil in it? These questions are not at all new in the world of philosophy. Many have tried to reconcile this difficult problem. Of the many who have tried, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz offered, perhaps, the most popular solution. In this message, Dr. Sproul explains the built-in weakness with the theodicy of Leibniz.

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