Citation Information for “Thomas Aquinas,
‘The Argument from Gradation’”
Philosophy of Religion
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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, ”Eighth 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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