PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Evil, Natural Evil, Contortion
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Augustine: the free choice of the will is the reason why we do wrong and suffer your just punishment (confessions vi. iii(4), cr 4) How can god exist if evil exists: how can a perfectly good being produce evils, augustine"s response: he doesn"t. Two kinds of evil: moral evil what people do, natural evil what just happens to us. Lucifer"s sin is a good test-case for the examining the nature of the will and moral responsibility. Lucifer does not have a body, could not have been swayed by bodily desires. Lucifer was not tempted by anyone else. Lucifer"s sin is the paradigmatic case of moral evil. The way in which lucifer rebels against god is, in a sense, the gold standard of. When you murder another human being, the wrongness of that is the rejection of what all evil is like the supreme good. Augustine defends the traditional view that lucifer"s first sin is pride.
