The Nature of Evil: Privation or Corruption? with Christophe de Ray
About this episode
The episode discusses the nature of evil with Dr. Christophe de Ray, focusing on his argument that evil is a corruption of good rather than merely the absence of good.
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Christophe de Ray from Nanyang Technological University about his article "Corruptio Boni: An Alternative to the Privation Theory of Evil," published in the journal Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy. Drawing inspiration from Augustine, Dr. de Ray argues that evil is not the mere absence of a good that ought to obtain, but rather the corruption of a good: something that harms, diminishes, or destroys it.
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