So exactly what does Philosophy mean when she speaks of existence and non existence?ĭoes this relate back to her early arguments to Boethius about the need of seeking happiness in spite of his physcial circumstances and discounting all forms of happiness that are granted by life and thus gifted by fortune.Īnd in this same way is Philosophy stating that the physcial world is completely irrelevant and of no consequence? So whatever happens in the physcial world and whatever men do in the physcial world means nothing?Īs previously Philosophy argues that to obtain true happiness one must seek it within God and in thier knowledge and faith in God and so in this vein evil can be said not to exist becasue it is outside of God, and if they physical world itself is nothing, and all that matters is God and thus Boethius can find happiness by turning completely to God and realizing the material tangible world is of no importance and should have no bearing upon him.

Philosophy cannot claim that there are no incidents of evil within the physcial world. I think for this argument to work one must define exactly what thier definition of existence is. It is a bit contradictory to acknowledge that there is wickedness in the world and in the very same breath deny the very existence of evil. I have to admit that I have trouble wrapping my head around that one. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked what I do den.'

Thomas wrote: 'Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist but that is how it is.

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