
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


This week's episode goes over St. Augustine's privation theory of evil. After being influenced by Neo-Platonism, Augustine measures evil as a lack of goodness because "being" in-and-of-itself entails a measure of goodness. In other word, that which has being, has goodness. Therefore even Satan is measured in terms of a lack of goodness while still having goodness simply by virtue of being. Incendiary though that might be, listen for more details!
By Derek Mellott4.8
99 ratings
This week's episode goes over St. Augustine's privation theory of evil. After being influenced by Neo-Platonism, Augustine measures evil as a lack of goodness because "being" in-and-of-itself entails a measure of goodness. In other word, that which has being, has goodness. Therefore even Satan is measured in terms of a lack of goodness while still having goodness simply by virtue of being. Incendiary though that might be, listen for more details!