St Augustine

• St augustine argued God created the perfect world
• St Augustine argued that experiencing evil allows humans to appreciate what is good
• St Augustine described evil as a 'privation' of good - meaning it is an absence of good
• what did St Augustine say about evil?

  'For what is that which we call the absence of good? disease and wounds mean the absence of health; for when a cure is effected, that does not mean that the evil which was present - namely, the disease and wounds go away from the, body and dwell elsewhere: they altogether cease to exist