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0006 Section one of Kanzelberger\u2019s article, \u201cReality and the Meaning of Evil<\/em>“, opens with a conversation between a party animal and a graduate student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exchange begins with the idea that evil is privation<\/em>.  As such, evil does not make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discourse ends with the idea that evil is real and, as such, evil makes sense<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, the conversation starts on one level and ends on another.  Plus, the conversation wrestles with a very important caveat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If evil is a positive entity, then it must have been created by God.  But if God is good, and His creation is called \u201cgood\u201d in Genesis, then evil must be privation, a lack of good.  God does not create evil.  We do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0007 Does this fit into a category-based nested form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it fits two of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a content levela<\/sub>, the level below morality, evil is privation and does not make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a situation levelb<\/sub>, the moral level, evil is real and makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0008 On the content levela<\/sub>, we ask, \u201cWhat is happening?3a<\/sub>\u201d  This is the platform for things and events2a<\/sub>, situating the potential of \u2018something\u2019 subjective1a<\/sub><\/em>.  Here, evil is privation and does not make sense because it is subjective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the situation levelb<\/sub>, we think, \u201cWhat does it mean to me?3b<\/sub>\u201d  This is where phantasms2b<\/sub> emerge from the potential of constructing objects, mind-dependent beings1b<\/sub><\/em>.  Here is where evil is real and sensible, because it is objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0009 Objective?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Something\u2019 objective<\/em>\u00a0can also be shared.\u00a0\u00a0It can be\u00a0intersubjective<\/em>. In order to become intersubjective, the phantasm2b<\/sub>must be actualized.\u00a0\u00a0Intersubjective beings are objective and subject to rational judgment by oneself and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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