Free Will Theodicy Analysis

Through this culture piece labeled Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson there is part of theodicy beginning in the first portion based on the free will theodicy. In this Emerson is calling out to a higher power which in this case is “God” and in this section he tries to figure out the actual impact of god’s power. During the time period which this piece was written it was the transcendentalism which was a literary period upon which many writers where trying to figure out where all the beauty of the world was coming from. Although this is the opposite of trying to find suffering it is where these authors were trying to find how much and why nature was created. Back to Emerson, in this there I also the discovery of which individuals are seeing nature …show more content…
God’s power through this article also talks about how free will is still a factor in everything and so God can only make such an environment to thrive and so it is still human ambition to try to make a better life. Having said all this it seems that their suffering (humans) is created from their own makings when they don’t look for the overall impact of God. Therefore, this means that the “free-will theodicy” being one of the most frequent forms is the answer here to why there is suffering in the world. This can be distinguished based on the statement, “to create a creature freely capable of doing what is morally right, therefore, God must create a creature who is also capable of doing what is morally wrong” which relates to Emerson’s line of “Religion includes the personality of God”. Along with the answer of where suffering comes from it also gives the reasoning behind nature, “as a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the earth” therefore stating that it is to help out his