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According to Augustine of Hippo, evil is:
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a necessary complement to God’s goodness

an illusion owing to human ignorance

the work of the devil

merely an absence (or privation) of goodness

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an illusion owing to human ignorance


“He 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.”
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