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Privation, Teleology, and the Metaphysics of Evil

Theological Studies, 2023
Drawing inspiration from Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, and Thomas Aquinas, and in support of the definition of evil as the privation of being or goodness, this article proposes a complementary definition of evil.
N. Lombardo
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Private-to-private corruption [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
The cases of corruption reported by the media tend almost always to involve a private party (a citizen or a corporation) that pays, or promises to pay, money to a public party (a politician or a public official, for example) in order to obtain an advantage or avoid a disadvantage.
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Corruptio boni: An alternative to the privation theory of evil

Ratio
The classic ‘privation theory’ of evil defines evil as an absence (or ‘privation’) of a good that ought to obtain. Despite its historical importance, privation theory is faced with a number of serious difficulties. I outline two of these difficulties and
Christophe de Ray
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Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin

Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition, 2019
This chapter focuses on Thomas Aquinas’ analysis of evil in On Evil to respond to three questions: (1) how does Aquinas conceptualise the relationship between good and evil? (2) what does Aquinas understand by the notion of original sin?
G. Rae
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Privation in the Problem of Evil

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 9, 2019
Privative evils are evils that deprive someone of a due good. Chapter 1 considers a special but widespread type of a privative evil, namely impairment.
A. Pruss, Hilary Yancey
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