St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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What Is Good Evil for Saint Thomas?
For saint as evil is real for saint thomas, it's not an illusion. Evil is the lack of goodness. It's a parasite where goodness should be. Even satan is not sort of,. even though we might say poetically, he's te personification of evil. His existence is still good because he still s exists, because he participates in god's existence and there is some deficiency.
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