dear lithien and squad,
ive been trying to stay out of this one so far (besides that Conrad
stuff) because i have yet to make up my mind about the nature of evil.
It's interesting to hear and wiegh out your evolving discussion without
trying to effect it. But ive been reading a lot of analysis on the
presocratics (philosophy without the e-mail)lately and just wanted to
throw in some Heraclitus and see what you make of it.
"Life and death, being awake and being asleep, youth and old age, all
these are the same... for the one turned round is the other and the
other turned round is the first.... the path that leads up and the path
that leads down are the same path.... Good and bad are identical.... for
god all things are beautiful and good and just, but men assume some
things to be unjust, and others to be just.... it is not in the nature
or charachter of man to possess true knowledge, though it is in the
divine nature."
Through the Popper interpretation of this quote, Heraclitus is saying
that all is one, and that all is in flux only in the minds of mortals.
to the gods (truth) there is no good or evil. there just is. and so
forth. It is closest, i think, to lithien's idea of "two sides of the
same coin".
well, do with this as you will
paul n
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