In a discussion of the nature of evil in his dialogue On the Fall of the Devil (ch. 10), St. Anselm of Canterbury has his interlocutor, the “Student,” pose a question going back to Plato’s Republic on the one hand and anticipating Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan on the other: is injustice really a privation and disruption …
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