both to so-called "moral" evils (such as vice, malice, or injustice) and to "natural" evils (such as disease or physical deformity). For Augustine, for instance, vices of the soul are "nothing but privations of natural good", just as bodily wounds and diseases are privations of bodily health. Aquinas similarly treats sin as a privation of due order in the will, while maintaining that the underlying powers and acts of the will, considered in themselves, are good insofar as they are beings.

Contemporary defenders differ on how exactly to