Eru letting Melkor go.. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bill Ferny · 01-05-2003, 10:31 PM

Simple. Evil is not an opposite of Good. Evil is an absence of being. Evil is a corruption of the good.

No thing is completely evil, for if it was, it would not exist at all.

That's a highly simplified assessment of good/evil. Like I said, guys like Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Bernard Lonergan, etc. go into much greater depth.

I really don’t see how I twisted your words. Attempting to use a foreign model to interpret Tolkien’s cosmology risks misconstruing his cosmology. It would be far better to use the models that Tolkien, himself, utilized, namely the Christian, Norse, Finnish, Anglo/Saxon, and Teutonic mythologies.

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Bill Ferny Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bree Posts: 390	Simple. Evil is not an opposite of Good. Evil is an absence of being. Evil is a corruption of the good. No thing is completely evil, for if it was, it would not exist at all. That's a highly simplified assessment of good/evil. Like I said, guys like Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Bernard Lonergan, etc. go into much greater depth. I really don’t see how I twisted your words. Attempting to use a foreign model to interpret Tolkien’s cosmology risks misconstruing his cosmology. It would be far better to use the models that Tolkien, himself, utilized, namely the Christian, Norse, Finnish, Anglo/Saxon, and Teutonic mythologies. __________________ I prefer Gillaume d’Férny, connoisseur of fine fruit.