Platonus's Theory of Egoism Is Not Quite Perfect

St. Augustine adopted the Platonian theory of evil and passed it on to the medieval tradition where it became a standard part of the argumentation used to absolve God of responsibility for evil. Since deficiency is found not in the intelligible world but only in the material world, the culprit must be matter. Our sick giraffe is like a wobbly table made by an expert carpenter working with poor quality wood. This idea that matter is somehow incapable of receiving form perfectly has a certain plausibility.