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This 3 page paper discusses Augustine’s explanation for evil, as conceptualized in his work On Free Choice of the Will. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. St. Augustine and the Problem of Evil Research Compiled for
, Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction St. Augustine is one of the most original thinkers in
the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual pleasure, he experienced a conversion and gave up his ways
to become a scholar and a churchman. But like all those who believe, he faced what seemed an insurmountable contradiction: if God is good, and if all things come from
God, how can one account for evil? This paper explains what Augustine suggested as an answer to that question. Discussion He made his argument in a relative short book entitled
On Free Choice of the Will, and the title pretty much explains his thinking. The book takes the form of a Socratic dialogue between Augustine and Evodius, in which Augustine
asks the young man a series of questions to which Augustine already has the answer-or at least has formed an opinion-in order to get him to arrive at the conclusion
for himself. By going down a sort of "list" of concerns about God and evil, Augustine brings Evodius to an understanding of why evil exists in the world created by
God. The book begins with Evodiuss plaintive plea: "Please tell me: isnt God the cause of evil?" (Augustine, 1993, p. 1). To which Augustine replies that its necessary to decide
what sort of evil hes talking about: there is the evil that men do, and the evil that is done to them; which is he interested in? (Augustine, 1993). Evodius
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