Privation

Evil as the absence of good (Privation Theory) main The early version of "deny evil" is called the "privation theory of evil", so named because it described evil as a form of "lack, loss or privation".

As more people resist mass house arrest and enforced privation, the state will undoubtedly resort to measures above and beyond locking activists up in mental institutions.

At the same time, privation appeared in new contexts.

My answer was, this is indeed a terrible privation.

Dad had grown up at boarding school in the Highlands during wartime privation and rationing: powdered egg, burnt toast, chilblains.

Augustine argued that God could not have created evil in the world, as it was created good, and that all notions of evil are simply a deviation or privation of goodness.

Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a wound.

Evil, according to St. Thomas, is a privation, or the absence of some good which belongs properly to the nature of the creature.

For example, Blindness is not a separate entity, but is merely a lack or privation of sight.

He reports of large numbers of Palestinian refugees leaving even before the outbreak of the 1948 war because of disillusionment and economic privation.

In Hick's approach, this form of theodicy argues that evil does not exist except as a privation —or corruption of—goodness, and therefore God did not create evil.

It hits hardest in times of war and privation, it has about 20 percent mortality, it kills the victim after about seven days, and it sometimes causes a striking complication: gangrene of the tips of the fingers and toes.

Theodahad's successor Witiges gathered together an army and besieged Rome for several months, subjecting the city to privation and starvation.

The recent defeats, together with the severe winter of 1708–09, had caused extreme famine and privation in France.