... toward The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion William J. Wainwright (Editor), Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The philosophy of religion ... entire realm of existing beings or things, a form of goodness best described as metaphysical goodness. This idea of goodness flourished in the writings of the neo-Platonists and profoundly influenced ... privation of being, an absence of good. So, nothing that exists can be fully evil, for insofar as something exists it has some degree of goodness. The second idea contained in the notion of metaphysical...