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But if his perfect goodness requires him to create the good world, how is it possible that he was free to create the inferior world or not to create any world?
So anyone who wishes to defend perfect moral goodness as a feature of the absolutely perfect being must hold that what moral goodness requires is at least compatible with the requirements of rationality.
But if God's perfect goodness requires him to create the very good world, rather than creating the inferior world or not creating a world at all, what are we to make of that part of the idea of God that declares that he created the world freely?
Reporting ill of another is one of the most difficult and delicate of rhetorical operations; to be persuasive, to leave the reader with an impression of X's badness and of one's own disinterestedness and goodness, requires great skill.
(One might think that perfect goodness presupposes omniscience and omnipotence — that perfect goodness requires complete knowledge, perfect freedom, and full effectiveness).
Rather, as the traces of Chrysippus' On Lives make clear, the Stoics believe that goodness requires serving other human beings as best one can, that serving all human beings equally well is impossible, and that the best service one can give typically requires political engagement.
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The Irish composer Andrew Hamilton's pointillist "Love and Goodness" required a lightness of touch that sometimes went beyond the abilities of the players.
And the same could be said of Myron's Diskobolos and Polykleitos's Doryphoros for they embody the balance of opposites that Athenians believed was what goodness required.
If so, it seems that God's perfect goodness would require him to create the very good world.
The fact that "good news" is so rare--that such a high threshold of goodness is required to transcend its commonness--speaks volumes about its predominance in the human personality.
Goodness functions required by SE are designed and explained.
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