If_There_Is_No_Evil,_Why_Do_We_Experience_It_So_Much_

If There Is No Evil, Why Do We Experience It So Much' Evil can be looked at from a variety of viewpoints, just as the experience of evil can be identified in many different ways. Webster defines evil as morally bad or wrong. The definition goes on to say that evil is causing injury or any other undesirable result. But this definition does not even come close to that of Augustine. Augustine states that, “…Accordingly, whatever things exist are good, and the evil into those whose origins I was inquiring is not a substance, for if it were a substance, it would be good” (Augustine 124). Augustine takes the concept of evil to a totally different level. Evil is a non-existing sense of wrongdoing; therefore, by determining what is right and wrong the human race can evaluate the severity of evil that we experience. We are naturally born with a damaged nature. This concept was that of Augustine’s anthropology. By us being born damaged, that is very similar to saying that we as the human race were born evil or with evil tendencies. Augustine states, “… A problem remained to trouble me. Although I affirmed and firmly held divine immunity from pollution and evil, good, augustine, wrong, god, right, experience, concept, because, things, therefore, struggle, sense, race, non-existent, just, human, exist, definition, born, being, augustine’s, whose, whatever, universe, true, through, substance, states, souls, situations, say, reason, real, part