Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue on the fall of the devil — explaining how the devil sinned by willing happiness without willing justice, and analyzing the nature of will and sin.
The devil sinned by willing happiness in excess — willing what he did not have — rather than adhering to the justice God gave him. Develops Anselm's account of free will as the power to preserve justice for its own sake.
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