{"id":4968,"date":"2021-06-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T23:17:59","slug":"looking-at-kirk-kanzelbergers-essay-2020-reality-and-the-meaning-of-evil-part-17-of-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Kirk Kanzelberger&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Reality and the Meaning of Evil&#8221; (Part 17 of 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0066 Kanzelberger writes, \u201cMoral evil is a dark image.&nbsp;&nbsp;It weaves a web that bewitches its author, then ensnares others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the author and the ensnared do not necessarily stand on the same level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0067 Natural evil makes no sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural evil is privation of the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moral evil makes sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;Moral evil is privation in phantasms.&nbsp;&nbsp;We selectively use word-symbols deprived of their fullness.&nbsp;&nbsp;We seek agreement<sub>1a<\/sub>, not wisdom<sub>1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metaphysical evil defies moral sense, by willfully projecting&nbsp;<em>its own relations between what is and what ought to be<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>, into spoken words<sub>2a<\/sub>, which cannot image or indicate on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0068 Imagine a nest, full of duly-appointed avian-philic crooked lawyers, passing a law decreeing\u00a0<em>the latest innovation of their premier legal theorist<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<em>All cats<\/em>\u00a0are to be banished from the sovereign realm, because they are\u00a0<em>symbols of human maliciousness and cruelty<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a brood worthy of Kanzelberger\u2019s philosophical consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0066 Kanzelberger writes, \u201cMoral evil is a dark image.&nbsp;&nbsp;It weaves a web that bewitches its author, then ensnares others.\u201d But, the author and the ensnared do not necessarily stand on the same level. 0067 Natural evil makes no sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural evil is privation of the subject. 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