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St. Augustine’s Teaching on Evil Examined in the Light of Certain Igbo Patterns of Thought

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Abstract

My i n t e r e s t i n t h e great A f r i c a n P h i l o s o p h e r A u g u s t i n e ,
was k i n d l e d d u r i n g a course i n Medieval ~ t h l c s , Arty one
a u l d see h i s h u m i l i t y who learns of h i s p u b l i c c o n f e s s i o n s
of h i s evil acts i n Carthage. H i s l o f t y t h o u g h t s on evil
is interesting. Again, my concern of t h e effects of human
misery and evil e s p e c i a l l y i n o u r t r a d i t i o n a l s o c i e t y , and
mast tzo ~-ILI,Wt he I g b o s o l v z t n i s probieni calls f o r a s t u d y
and d i s c o u r s e . 1 had an e q u a l u r g e to write on t h e s e two
a n d f o u n d 1 c o u l d o n l y succeed by a m a r r i a g e of t h e two
systems of t h o u g h t , I n no way did I f i n d it b e t t e r to do
t h a n t a k i n g up o u r t r a d i t i o n a l t h o u g h t on t h e problem o f
e v i l and s e e i n g it from t h e c r i t i c a l e y e s of Augustine,