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By Caitlin Quance - February 15, 2003

The Structure of Plato's Symposium Plato's Psychology - The Tripartite Soul Love and the Importance of the Speeches Pederasty Without Sexual Relations The Impossibility of Evil Without Ignorance and... "Pregnant in Body and in Mind": Reproduction and... Love in the Passions The Search For Truth In Love And Beauty

As society's rules and ideals have changed over time, so have their

definitions of evil been completely revolutionized. While today evil is something morally wrong, a violation of some universal law, it was not always seen in the same light. St. Augustine and Plato both characterized evil as simply an absence of good. Since both men equated good…

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