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Especially since under neoplatonic thought lots of things are considered more real because they lack physical existence.
by fusiongyro 13y ago
Especially since under neoplatonic thought lots of things are considered more real because they lack physical existence.
- foldr 13y agoI wonder if this is maybe a confused reference to the privation theory of evil? In Aristotelean scholastic theology evil is simply a lack of being (since goodness is one of the transcendental properties of being), and so there's a connection between nothingness and evil.
- fusiongyro 13y agoI think ignorance is probably a simpler explanation, but thanks for bringing that up, I am not well-versed in medieval theology.