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The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.
Aquinas supported Augustine's view that evil is a privation of goodness, maintaining that evil has existence as a privation intrinsically found in good. [24] The existence of this evil, Aquinas believed, can be completely explained by free will.
Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
For Augustine, evil, when it refers to God's material creation, refers to a "privation, an absence of goodness "where goodness might have been" (Conf.3.7.12)". [ 26 ] : 44 This absence of good is an act of the will, "a culpable rejection of the infinite bounty God offers in favor of an infinitely inferior fare", freely chosen by the will of an ...
Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a wound. [10] In Augustine's view (termed "Realism"), all of humanity was really present in Adam when he sinned. Therefore all have sinned. Original sin, according to Augustine, consists of the guilt of Adam which all humans inherit.
The fourth-century theologian Augustine of Hippo adopted the privation theory, and in his Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love, maintained that evil exists as "absence of the good". [65] God is a spiritual, (not corporeal), Being who is sovereign over other lesser beings because God created material reality ex nihilo .
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Augustine rejected the notion that evil exists in itself, proposing instead that it is a privation of (or falling away from) good, and a corruption of nature. [55] He wrote that "evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name 'evil.'" [ 56 ] Both moral and natural evil occurs, Augustine argued, owing to an evil use of ...