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    It is not the case that Matter is bad and is the source and cause of all badness and disorder in the world.

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    • 1.Plotinus argues matter is not actively evil but merely privation of form — an absence, not a positive causal force of badness.
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    • 2.A privation cannot be a 'source and cause' in the robust causal sense Numenius requires, since causes must possess the qualities they transmit.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle demonstrates that matter is a necessary co-principle of form, and without it no good sensible thing could exist at all.
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    • 2.If matter were the source of all badness, then the existence of any embodied good — health, beauty, virtue in action — would be inexplicable.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Matter is essentially disordered.
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    • 2.Disorder amounts to badness for Numenius.
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    • 3.The source of disorder in the world is matter.
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