Thomas Aquinas · Theology

The Problem of Evil

Aquinas’s answer to the hardest question in theology: how a good and all-powerful God can permit the evil and suffering that fill the world.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Aquinas treats evil as a privation of good and argues God permits it for greater goods. Reconstruct his answer, and the strongest objection to it, in your own words.

Leads to Gottfried Leibniz.

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