It's a common view nowadays that there is no best possible world - because for any world in which some "good unit" exists (such as a human), there could always be one more unit of that type.
It seems to follow from this that if God exists, his criteria for creating a world is not a moral one. Perhaps God's criteria is aesthetic - but, perhaps an aesthetic criteria reduces to a moral one, in that the reason for creating an aesthetic world is so that moral agents which exist in this world can appreciate it, and creating a world in which moral agents can appreciate the beauty of creation is a moral good.
What are your thoughts on what God's criteria for choosing a world to actualize might be?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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