Book 7:12
'Evil has no being of its own; it is only the privation of good' — the breakthrough on evil's nature.
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From Confessions by Saint Augustine
Augustine's intellectual journey through Manichaean dualism and his eventual Christian-Neoplatonic resolution that evil is not a substance but a privation of good.
Book 5:10
Augustine's disillusionment with Manichaean cosmology and his break from the sect.
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