In What Sense This World Is Imperfect?
I think the world, as dead matter, is as perfect as it can be. Turning to creatures, animals are as good as they can be, there are few reservations about them but limited knowledge stop us. When we get to humans there is a problem, because we have genuine free will, which serves two purposes: it gives us our rational power, but it also allows us to misuse that rational power, if we become corrupt (which we often do). Take away that rational choice and we just fall back into being merely animals again. Give us that rational power and we can then either develop ourselves more perfectly, or we can become corrupt and despotic. Perfection has that dynamic aspect: we either foster it (by becoming better), or we can misuse it and become more evil. That choice is what characterizes what we are, or can be. We either work for truth, justice and beauty, or we don’t. So I think as dead matter the world is as beautiful as it could be.