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Often appears with: theodicy · the problem of evil and theodicy · the harmony of nature · problem of evil · justice as a virtue · evil as lack not substance
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · reverence (1)
“Either then corruption injures not, which cannot be; or which is most certain, all which is corrupted is deprived of good.” Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, The Confessions of St. Augustine · insight
He argues that corrupted things are still “good” insofar as corruption cannot exist without diminished goodness, claims evil is not a substance but a lack, and praises God’s ordered creation.
in Him, I cannot in myself; but He remaining in Himself, reneweth all things. And Thou art the Lord my God, since Thou standest not in need of my goodness. And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they were incorruptible, if not good at all, there were nothing in t…