Citation Information for “Thomas Aquinas, ‘The Argument from Gradation’”

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”Evil cannot have place among Beings or in the Beyond-Being; these are good. There remains, only, if Evil exist at all, that it be situate in the realm of Non-Being, that it be some mode, as it were, of the Non-Being, that it have its seat in something in touch with Non-Being or to a certain degree communicate in Non-Being. By this Non-Being, of course, we are not to understand something that simply does not exist, but only something of an utterly different order from Authentic-Being…” Plotinus, ”Eight Tractate: On the Nature and Source of Evil,” Plotinus trans. Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1952), 30.

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