ABSTRACT
If we think of possible worlds in the abstract we might think of them as divided into worlds that are on the whole good, worlds that are on the whole bad, and worlds that are on the whole neutral, neither good nor bad. This chapter sketches out the implications for the problem of evil. It then returns to the topic of God’s perfections and argues that there is a serious conflict, if not incoherence, within the theistic picture of God. Our Leibnizian conclusion goes well beyond telling us that there are outweighing goods that an omnipotent being could not bring about without permitting all the instances of evil that occur in our world. As difficult as the similar past worlds problem of evil may be for theism, the chapter suggests that our Leibnizian conclusion points to an even more severe difficulty, what is called as the all worlds problem of evil.
