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    Natural evil does not actually exist, because we lack the... — Carmelics
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    Natural evil does not actually exist, because we lack the proper perspective to perceive the overall beauty of the natural system.

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    • 1.Leibniz's theodicy holds that God perceives the universe as a maximally perfect whole, while finite minds perceive only fragmentary parts.
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    • 2.Apparent disharmony in a fragment does not constitute genuine disharmony in the whole system from which it is abstracted.
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    • 3.Therefore, what we call natural evil is an artifact of our perceptual and cognitive finitude, not an objective feature of the cosmos.
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    • 1.Aesthetic judgment requires the appropriate scale and frame: a dissonant chord evaluated in isolation differs from the same chord within a resolved symphony.
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    • 2.Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics argued that natural processes judged harmful from a partial view are necessary constituents of the rational cosmic order (logos).
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    • 3.If the correct evaluative frame for natural processes is the whole system rather than isolated events, our ascription of 'evil' commits a category error of scope.
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    • 1.We do not currently have the right perspective to see the overall beauty of the natural system.
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    • 2.What appears to be natural evil is a failure of perspective, not a genuine feature of reality.
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    There are different kinds of responses to the problem of natural evil in theological traditions: Aesthetic responses say that we don’t presently have the right perspective to see the overall beauty of the natural system, and thus that there really is no natural evil; Soul-making responses say that this present vale of natural evil is justified because it gives us the chance to become virtuous; Skeptical theistic responses say that given our limited faculties we cannot reasonably expect to unders
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