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>>23179843
All answered in Schelling's freedom essay:
https://germanidealism.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/schelling-fs-english.pdf

Reminder that only Schelling has a good answer to the problem of evil:
https://germanidealism.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/schelling-fs-english.pdf

>>22282749
Read Schelling, it's the rigourous philosophical application of Bohme with less peasant mystification.

>>22235943
I know it's not Thomist, it's a naive Platonist conception of evil best articulated by Proclus in On the Existence of Evils. I'd start with Schelling's freedom essay against the Platonic privation conception of evil:
https://germanidealism.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/schelling-fs-english.pdf

Kant on radical evil
>Kant holds to the following rigoristic thesis: Ethically, human beings are either wholly evil or wholly good by virtue of whether or not an agent has adopted the moral law as the governing maxim for all of his or her maxims (Religion 6:22-23). For either the moral law is the governing maxim for the choice of maxims or it is not; making the moral law the ground of our maxims is sufficient for moral goodness. This thesis turns on a second thesis: An individual with a morally good character or disposition (Gessinnung) has adopted a moral maxim as a governing maxim, and incorporates the moral law as a basis for choosing all other maxims. If an agent has done so, then by virtue of making all other maxims compliant with this maxim, these subsequent maxims will be consistent with the moral law. Nevertheless, when an alternative maxim—that of self-conceit—is chosen as a governing maxim, then this egoistic alternative becomes the basis for maxim choice and the moral law is subordinated to an alternative governing maxim along with every other maxim.
>Consequently, the ethical choice facing the moral agent is either to subordinate all other maxims to the moral law, or to subordinate the moral law with every other maxim to an egoistic alternative. The fact is that human agents, although conscious of the moral law, nevertheless do in fact incorporate the occasional deviation from it as part of their individual maxim set. When an agent mis-subordinates the requirements of morality to the incentives of self-conceit (however small it may be), the result is radical evil (Religion 6.32).
https://iep.utm.edu/rad-evil/

See also Kierkegaard's short work 'Reptition' against the Platonic (called Socratic therein) theory of ethics as recollection of knowledge for similar problems.

>>20897792
Yes
https://germanidealism.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/schelling-fs-english.pdf

>>20790176
No, only Schelling has a good answer.