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what is Lady Philosophy's doctrine of the origin of evil?

 

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Oct 13, 2011 4:40 PM

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what is Lady Philosophy's doctrine of the origin of evil?

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Roskolnikov
Jan 10, 2012 12:05 PM

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Boethius' account of evil is similar to Augustine's in that it understands evil to be substance-less (literally non-existent) in its "essence." Therefore it is not so much that evil exists independently of good--rather, it is that evil is the absence of good in the first place.
 

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