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    evil is a privation of goodness — Carmelics
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    evil is a privation of goodness

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    • 1.Augustine and Aquinas demonstrate that evil lacks independent ontological substance, existing only as corruption within a good substrate.
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    • 2.A distinct entity requires positive being, but evil is defined entirely by what it lacks, not by any intrinsic properties it possesses.
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    • 3.Darkness is not a distinct entity from light but its absence; similarly, evil is constituted by the absence of due goodness, not separate existence.
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    • 1.Neoplatonic metaphysics, from Plotinus onward, establishes that all being qua being is good, leaving evil no positive ontological category to occupy.
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    • 2.If evil were a distinct entity, it would possess being, but possessing being entails goodness, which contradicts evil's essential character as corruption of good.
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    • evil is a distinct entity from goodness
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    • if the above is true, then it is not that evil is a privation of goodness
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    if the above is true, then it is not that evil is a privation of goodn...91%evil is a distinct entity from goodness87%sin is pure evil76%goodness is all that exists67%

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