(November 23, 2021 at 11:21 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I’d add to my comments on gods morality and free will, that a spinozan god..particularly…probably couldn’t be said to have a moral dimension of this sort any more than a volcano does. It’s not a force of nature, but the force of nature. It doesn’t set out with the intent to harm by purposely causing a tsunami- it is the tsunami, or rather…the tsunami is like breathing in our out for us., and we, likewise…are like breathing in or out to it.
Well put. This seems a good expression of the difference between moral evil and natural evil. The former requires a free agent to compass it, while the latter has no intent, and is only ‘evil’ from the perspective of those free agents affected by it.
Boru
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