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... EVIL Plotinus now had on his hands the problem of evil . He had to explain the sudden change the process of emanation took for the worse after generating the physical universe , and to reconcile the im- perfections of the world with the ...
... EVIL Plotinus now had on his hands the problem of evil . He had to explain the sudden change the process of emanation took for the worse after generating the physical universe , and to reconcile the im- perfections of the world with the ...
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... EVIL Since Matter is the source and principle of imperfection and evil , what is true of it will , by and large , be true of them . Neither Matter nor evil , as we now see , is a positive principle actively and stubbornly resistant to ...
... EVIL Since Matter is the source and principle of imperfection and evil , what is true of it will , by and large , be true of them . Neither Matter nor evil , as we now see , is a positive principle actively and stubbornly resistant to ...
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... evil and nothingness . God , then , being the source of emanation , is in a sense the source of Matter and evil but he is not , in Plotinus ' opinion , therefore responsible for them . XIV . THE RELATION OF SIN TO EVIL Turning now to ...
... evil and nothingness . God , then , being the source of emanation , is in a sense the source of Matter and evil but he is not , in Plotinus ' opinion , therefore responsible for them . XIV . THE RELATION OF SIN TO EVIL Turning now to ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY | 17 |
THE MILESIAN SCHOOL | 26 |
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