however believed occurrences of evil are brought around by divine either directly or through intermediar and are the actual happening in the world.

Early modern philosophy and poetry

The privation theory continued to influence early modern thought. In Part II of his Ethics, Spinoza writes that by "reality" and "perfection" he means the same thing, which Bertrand Russell interprets as agreement with the privation theory. Leibniz

1.Previous
3.Next