It is therefore not God who is the cause of moral evil: but he is the cause of physical evil, that is, of the punishment of moral evil.
Metaphysical evil consists in mere imperfection, physical evil in suffering, and moral evil in sin.
Previously endeavours to abate our wonder at the phenomenon of moral evil; shows, first, its use to the perfection of the universe, by analogy, from the use of physical evil in this particular system.
Leibnitz divided evil into moral evil or sin, physical evil or suffering, and metaphysical evil or the limitation of our endowments.
The two former may be called physical evil, and apply also to animals; while the latter is moral evil, and applies only to man.
Now it is important to remember that a great deal of physical evil originates in moral evil, which will be considered later on.
Evidently, then, physical evil even in the case of man is only seeming evil, but real good.
It is clear that as far as the question of the origin of evil is concerned, the first of these two classes, physical evil, depends upon the properties of matter, and the last upon those of mind.
The main tendency of the argument, therefore, is confined to physical evil; and this has always been found the most difficult to account for, that is to reconcile with the government of a perfectly good and powerful Being.
Let it be examined how each of these duties would be practised, if there were no physical evil to enforce it.
Almost all the moral good, which is left among us, is the apparent effect of physical evil.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "physical evil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
