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HoP 090 - A Decorated Corpse – Plotinus on Matter and Evil

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Platonus's Sense of Evil

For Platonus, an action is up to us if we are the cause determining the action. He does admit that bad things happen, but there is no such thing as badness. Strictly speaking, it has no being. Badness is always a mere lack or deficiency which is found within something that has some degree of goodness.

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