Comparing Hume's Imperfect And Full Of Evil

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The world is imperfect and full of evil. If God is perfect then he should be all-good, and God is in fact all-good since he is perfect according to Descartes. Even if God was all-good, which would imply perfection, there is still evil in the world. If God was a perfect being then he would have created no evil in the world. Hume argues that, although humans can “surmount all his real enemies[...], but does he not immediately raise up to himself imaginary enemies, the demons of his fancy[...] (Hume 60). Evil exists in the world in a physical and mental form. Even if people are capable of conquering the physical evil, the imaginary evil is still there which implies we have an idea of what evil is. Evil is among men, as Hume writes, “man is the