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Evil in Later Medieval Philosophy
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 45, Number 2, April 2007
- pp. 177-205
- 10.1353/hph.2007.0039
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This essay presents a critical review of recent literature on evil in medieval philosophy, as understood by thinkers from Anselm of Canterbury onward. "Evil" is taken to include not only serious, deliberate wrongdoing, but also everyday sins done from ignorance or passion. Special attention is paid to Aquinas's De Malo, Giles of Rome and the aftermath of the 1277 Condemnation, scholarly disputes about Scotus's teachings, and commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics by Walter Burley, Gerald Odonis, and John Buridan.