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    Challenges→Plotinus argues matter is not actively evil but merely privation of form — an absence, not a positive causal force of badness.

    If evil is only absence, victims' suffering would be fictional or illusory, yet Plotinus acknowledges real phenomenal harms requiring real causes.

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