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Evil

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profound immorality

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Thus has God been induced to permit evil. 22. But someone will say to me: why speak you to us of 'permitting'? Is it not God that doeth the evil and that willeth it?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
Names Evil several times; states what Evil is.
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Reply Obj. 2: Good and evil are not constitutive differences except in morals, which receive their species from the end, which is the object of the will, the source of all morality. And because good has the nature of an end, therefore good and evil are specific differences in moral things; good in itself, but evil as the absence of the due end. Yet neither does the absence of the due end by itself constitute a moral…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Names Evil several times; states what Evil is.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.—There is at present a fundamentally erroneous theory of morals which is much celebrated, especially in England: according to it the judgments "good" and "evil" are the accumulation of the experiences of that which is "expedient" and "inexpedient"; according to this theory, that which is called good is conservative of…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom
Names Evil several times; states what Evil is.
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