Augustine also inclined to Neoplatonism in his view of evil. He believed, like Plotinus, that evil is the “absence of God.” Evil has no independent existence, it is something that is not. For God’s creation is in fact only good. Evil comes from mankind’s disobedience, Augustine believed. Or, in his own words, “The good will is God’s work; the evil will is the falling away from God’s work.”’
