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1.8 Evil

The Soul, the IP, Evil, Life, Existence, and Intellective-Act are all Ideal Forms

2. The Good is beyond conception (Thing-In-Itself?)
- particulars are the IP
- the IP possess each particular not by "having" but Is each of it's participants

3 rings, The Good in the middle, then IP, then the Soul

3. Evil is in touch with Non-Being, or is a mode of it, or is in it's realm

Non-Being is an image of Being, or worse, such as:
- sensible universe
- accident of sense
- source of the sense world

Absolute Evil is the source/hypostasis of Evil

4. The bodily Kind which takes in Matter is Evil
- bodily form is untrue
- hinders the Soul in it's proper Act

Soul is evil if it has:
- licentiousness, cowardicess, unmeasure, excess
- values things by like or dislike, rather than by good or evil

Process belongs to Matter
- Matter likens itself to whatever comes in touch with it

The perfect Soul turns away from Matter
- only the IP determines
- fallen Souls are mere images of it

5. Is Evil just the lack of Good?
Evil is in absolute lack
- Matter is an Evil, since it is void of Good in itself
- Some lack of Good isn't Evil

Sickness, ugliness, and poverty are Evil
- sickness is excess or defect of the body
- ugliness is matter not mastered by Ideal Form
- poverty is lack of goods associated with Matter

Men who are evil are such against their will
- Evil existed before us, as Non-Being

6. How does evil exist if it is Non-Being?
Shouldn't we flee Earthly life?
- no, just vice
- Evil is a necessity since it is contrary to Good and you can't have one without the other, and neither can be destroyed alone

How can there be a contrary to Good if the World Soul has no qualities?
- dualism doesn't apply to it

Dualism doesn't apply to particular existences, only qualities

Good and Evil are the most violent dyad because there is nothing in common with them

7 The All <---> Matter
Good <---> Evil

The nature of the Cosmos is a blend from the IP and Necessity
- Matter also called "The Ancient Kind"
- Evil is the Last, Good is the First

8. "neither ignorance nor wicked desire arise in Matter" or "guns don't kill people"
But,
- the quality doesn't act apart from Matter
- qualities would be different outside Matter
- "Fire doesn't burn"

What Idea or Good enters Matter ceases to be itself
- formlessness, shapelessness, excess, defect, belong to Matter, and turn Good Forms to Evil
- The Cause of Evil is Matter

Can't the Idea conquor Matter?
- ideas are only pure by avoidance of Matter

The darkness -> primary (Evil, Good)
the darkened -> secondary (Vice, Virtue)

9 Vices
utter viciousness
- partial goodness in all vices
- The Formless = Matter
- Matter is an IP, and one must understand Matter by fully immersing themselves with it

10. Matter has a nature
- It is a substratum for qualities of it's nature
- Give it Quality and it would be a Kind contary to Form