Philosophical Inquiry into The Nature of Evil: A Comparative Study of St. Augustin and St. Thomas Aquinas

This philosophical inquiry aims to shed a light on one of the most intriguing question of the reality and nature of evil through the lens of Saints Augustin and Thomas Aquinas. Despite our church’s teaching of what really is the nature of evil and its reality, many still are not convinced of the idea that evil is a reality especially when we sometimes missed the real nature of evil. By conducting a conceptual analysis, a process of which we take a closer look on the different concept of the prominent philosophers and saints of our church. textual analysis where we can see and observe the way both philosophers think and understand the nature of evil and its reality based on experience and understanding. Lastly by creating a comparative analysis on the ideas of saints’ Augustin and Thomas Aquinas of which the researcher would plot the philosopher’s points of convergence, point of divergence and its implication. this philosophical inquiry would help in grasping the idea in the reality and nature of evil in effect to our daily encounter with evil, ultimately instilling awareness and knowledge of the real evil on our society.