tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post6538703267303677087..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Two privation theoriesAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-46525083815881405822020-09-29T11:03:09.410-05:002020-09-29T11:03:09.410-05:00I was scooped: Aquinas makes the point in this pos...I was scooped: Aquinas makes the point in this post in the first article of the De Malo.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-19113187691133315912020-04-21T13:55:52.365-05:002020-04-21T13:55:52.365-05:00I think that's a variant of the evilmaking the...I think that's a variant of the evilmaking theory on which independent reason is given why it is that only goods need to be created.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-71719754083530550202020-04-21T12:47:35.166-05:002020-04-21T12:47:35.166-05:00This is a neat point. Just a quick thought: Suppos...This is a neat point. Just a quick thought: Suppose we say that the facts about evil are most perspicuously captured in terms of a sentential operator, "It is an evil that p" (instead of a a predicate, "x is an evil"). And suppose we hold that the facts about God's creative activity are most perspicuously captured with statements of the form "God causes the state of affairs that P," where P always corresponds to some positive state of affairs (roughly, a state of affairs consisting of substances having positive properties or standing in positive relations). Within this framework, we might express the idea that evil is a privation by saying something like this: If it is an evil that P, then the state of affairs that P is not a positive state of affairs (we might add: it also isn't fully grounded in any positive states of affairs). And we might capture the Augustinian idea that God doesn't create evil by saying: If God causes the state of affairs that P, then it is not an evil that P.Brian Cutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17059155559949747916noreply@blogger.com