A. Statement of the Opinion

2. Here the statement is made [Bonaventure, Aquinas, Richard of Middleton]Bonaventure, Sentences 2 d.34 a.1 q.3, “One must say that it is possible to speak about evil in two ways, either about that which is bad or about bad under the idea of bad... If intention is compared to bad under the idea of bad, it can be so in two ways: either such that it intends to do this as bad simply or as bad for itself, and no one intends in this way, because nothing is desired by the will save under the idea of good simply or good for itself; or such that it intends this as bad simply but as good for itself, and in this way bad can be done by intention and is sometimes so done, though not by all but by the malicious, who, because of the corruption of their inner palate, taste bad things as good.” ⁵⁶ that it cannot, following the authority of Dionysius Divine Names ch.4, “No one acts looking to what is bad.”