Evil
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The Importance of Evil in Classical Philosophy
Aristotle says one can build up a disposition of vice based on habit. And if one builds up that disposition of vice, Aristotle says it's nearly insurmountable. So the person who are evil is really almost incapable of overcoming that. Also in the laws Plato actually says that evil may be an equal ontological principle with God. He seems to move in his last text written on his deathbed, Plato, to the view that evil may even be a cosmic principle. This will have a very great influence on, on post Greek philosophy, on Christian philosophy in particular.
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