We then examine some important reasons why Whitehead introduces God into his metaphysics after which we proceed to determine to what extent God is morally all-good. Subsequently, We find that evil for Whitehead is any actual entity that presents a threat of destruction to the harmony of a society of actual entities. We then proceed to examine how Whitehead‘s view of value evolved to that of value as harmony. Here we find that what is fundamental to his position is that God is the source of esse through which both evil and good become defined. We then proceed to see how a traditional theodicy such as that of Thomas Aquinas deals with the problem of God and evil. We begin by briefly examining Whitehead's early view that traditional theodicies are deficient because they fail to satisfy the intellect. Our aim is to show that because Whitehead‘s view on the all-goodness of God and related matters evolved, Whitehead in his final writings could not have a satisfactory theodicy. A theodicy is an attempt to show with logical rigour that God, the creator of the World, can be considered to be morally all-good despite the evil that is in the World.
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