Plotinus
Ennead I.8 [51]: On what are and whence come evils
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Ennead I.8 [51]: On what are and whence come evils
Plotinus
It identifies primary evil with matter, absolute privation and total lack of form, and secondary evil with what participates in it: the body and vice of the soul. It rejects the view that evil originates in the soul itself and conceives it as the inevitable lower limit of the procession from the Good.