Evil
In Our Time
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Aquinas and the Problem of Evil
Aquinas makes a relatively familiar distinction in the tradition between what you might call natural evil and moral evil. He has a different, as it were, response to evil in those two different forms. In the case of natural evil, he has the kind of thought that Margaret was saying Augustine helps himself to. If God is going to create a material world at all, it's not going to be possible for him to create entities who are capable of fully manifesting their nature without having deleterious impacts on other elements of the natural order.
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