Mysterium Iniquitatis
Whence and Whither Evil?
If the sensible world is good, despite its partial, perhaps even phenomenal fallenness and temporary subjection to evil angels and gods—a point of dispute, I acknowledged in the last entry, between Platonists, gnostics, and more orthodox Christians—then what is evil, at the formal and final levels of causality (that is, not just its potential mechanical…
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