Here I was slavishly reading your substack in order...and then I come to this article, and I laughed. You were so patient with my comment guessing photography. You are an excellent teacher. And after reading your argument, I cannot disagree. I'll just put this information in the file untill I find something more convincing that will dislodge it.
Yes, I just responded to that other post and corrected myself -- I had assumed your comment went with this AI article instead of the phonograph article.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm happy others can get something out of these articles!
I have only one comment that concerns my filter in reading this article. You write of the notion in dualism that is two choices, to be good or to be evil. In the two French phrases, Il est froid - He is cold (not friendly), and Il a froid - he has cold (in need of a coat), I began to understand that perhaps we cannot BE good or BE evil and instead we can DO good and/or DO evil. I do not see good and evil as dualistic characteristics but instead as choices of actions. Perhaps the phonograph brought evil deeds to light as never before. Open for comments :)
Interesting way to look at it. I agree that you can want to do horrific things and if you never do, then you are not evil. The actions drive the definition. Thinking does nothing by itself.
Perhaps we could instead use the word “criminal”. Instead of being evil, someone would be criminal if they do evil deeds. But then we might consider their intent in those deeds. Are they done in ignorance or with full knowledge of the evil. Your article took me into multiple areas :)
Here I was slavishly reading your substack in order...and then I come to this article, and I laughed. You were so patient with my comment guessing photography. You are an excellent teacher. And after reading your argument, I cannot disagree. I'll just put this information in the file untill I find something more convincing that will dislodge it.
Yes, I just responded to that other post and corrected myself -- I had assumed your comment went with this AI article instead of the phonograph article.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm happy others can get something out of these articles!
I have only one comment that concerns my filter in reading this article. You write of the notion in dualism that is two choices, to be good or to be evil. In the two French phrases, Il est froid - He is cold (not friendly), and Il a froid - he has cold (in need of a coat), I began to understand that perhaps we cannot BE good or BE evil and instead we can DO good and/or DO evil. I do not see good and evil as dualistic characteristics but instead as choices of actions. Perhaps the phonograph brought evil deeds to light as never before. Open for comments :)
Interesting way to look at it. I agree that you can want to do horrific things and if you never do, then you are not evil. The actions drive the definition. Thinking does nothing by itself.
Perhaps we could instead use the word “criminal”. Instead of being evil, someone would be criminal if they do evil deeds. But then we might consider their intent in those deeds. Are they done in ignorance or with full knowledge of the evil. Your article took me into multiple areas :)