Augustine, City of God bk 11 | Goodness of Creation and Natural Evil | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Augustine's work, The City of God, and specifically on his discussion in book 11 bearing on the problem of evil, namely why, if there is a perfectly good, omniscient, and omnipotent God, evil exists in the world. One way of initially addressing this is to make the distinction between moral evil, which depends upon the wills of creatures, and natural evil, which has to do with the workings of the natural world - workings which we find bad in some sense.
Augustine points out that natural things and processes that we might be tempted to view as evil actually are good in themselves, and as parts of a complexly ordered cosmos. Many of them can also be good for us, if we use them prudently and with knowledge.
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