Question Number 6 In the book On the Free CHoice of the Will, Augustine believes evil is someone who desires to live without fear in which they crave to have and do an evil desire. Augustine considers evil as a corruption of goodness, caused by humanity’s abuse of free will. He said that the source of our evildoing is inordinate desire which is the cause of every evil deed, and is the reason why the deed is evil. God created everyone from nothing and he gave everyone the choice of free will.
According to everyone they believe God created them and gave them the free will to do wrong. So everyone assumes that it is God's fault for their wrong doings. With God’s omnipotence and the freedom he gave them they choose to do evil themselves. But augustine argues that it is the individual's responsibility to be accountable for their actions. Just because they have free will that God endowed them will they should know better to take credit for their unthoughtful evil actions. Augustine stated that “evil is not a flaw in God’s system, but rather the consequence of human inferiority to God.”
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Evil happens when one turns away from goodness. Everyone blamed God for the act of being evil, but Augustine was trying to excuse the fault on God for the existence of evil in the world. He believed evil things happened because human beings have free choice, and they choose to do wrong on their own which is the reason for their actions. According to Augustine and Evodius inordinate desire is what causes evil. Which is also known as “cupidity” which is the desire of its object. They explained that evildoing are things such as “Adultery, murder, and sacrilege.” (Evodius, pg 4) They both agreed that adultery is evil, according to Evodius he knows adultery is evil because he will not tolerate it if someone tried to commit adultery with his own wife. He stated that “Anyone who does to another what he does not want done to himself does evil.” (Evodius,