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Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:22:40 2020 No.16515883 [Reply] [Original]

How does gnosticism solve the problem of evil? Any books on this topic?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:27:32 2020 No.16515931 if gnostics think that the demiurge is evil, does that mean they have to deal with a problem of Good?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:32:05 2020 No.16515965 >>16515931 no, because good is a consequence of the spirit imprisoned in matter

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:46:54 2020 No.16516056 File: 76 KB, 800x620, M O N A D.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16515883 It allows the creator of the world around us to be flawed, while still containing a "perfect being" that satisfies all the usual philosophical arguments.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 23:38:00 2020 No.16516633 >>16516056 If the emanation of the Monad is, in a roundabout manner, responsible for evil, how does the concept of a Demiurge and Monad solve the problem of evil in any way?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 23:40:03 2020 No.16516648 >>16516633 It doesn't, or in any case is more honest about the reality of evil. Only hard dualism answers the problem of evil.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 23:45:07 2020 No.16516668 >>16516056 >>16515883 I always thought the idea of the absense of good being evil to be the best and most strightforward explaination without all the warping arbitrary fuckery of gnostic system.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 00:02:03 2020 No.16516742 >>16516668 I like the privation of good theory because it squares with both Christian and Platonic/Neoplatonic thought, both of which appear to have a great deal of truth to them otherwise