Augustine Good And Evil

In the reading of On Evil as Privation,City of God, Augustine starts of by stating that anyone who opposes God is considered an enemy, and they only cause damage to themselves because no evil is harmful to God. Furthermore, God is Absolute Being and the things he does in life, like death for example, are never in vain and should not be reproached towards him because he is not to blame or “praised for all the perfection we see in the natures He has made” (5). However, good and evil are always hand in hand because a good willed person can turn evil and vice versa. It is also known “that the nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient” (8). This means that evil does not have enough