Augustine's Analysis: Where Did Evil Come From?

The question arises, “Where did evil come from?”. If you think about evil as physical realities and material things, this is a very difficult question for monotheists who believe in an infinitely good god. If there’s an infinitely good god who has created everything, and among the creations of god are things that are evil, then it logically follows that God created evil things. Augustine comes to see that evil is not really a physical entity at all. You cannot go buy some evil nor can you look at it under a microscope. Evil in fact refers to the corruption and depravation of being of a positive reality. In physical terms, if one were to be blind in one eye, this could be looked at as a physical evil. Something that should be there is not there,

There is also moral evil, where someone carries out an action which deprives something or someone of a reality that should be there. An example would be when someone lies, when someone distorts the truth and should be giving someone information, instead they twist it and distort it, what happens there is they are taking away/depriving someone a reality that they’re owed. They’re corrupting and distorting a good, namely communication and the power to speak and express things. An example of this would be murder in which someone takes a good, namely human life, and they are depriving/corrupting/distorting/destroying it, taking away the reality of life from it. Therefore, evil is not really a thing or an entity in itself, it is the depriving/corrupting/distorting of a being of reality that should be there. The question is where does this come from? For Augustine, he is very interested in the human will. Now certainly, with physical things, in a physical world like our own, when physical things come into contact with another; For instance, if a limb falls off a tree onto the grass, the limb will deprive the grass of sunlight and it will begin to