Matt, gav, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Matt Kundert <[email protected]>wrote:
> > matt said: and, along a different angle, not being able to > actually effect a perfection--your point--breeds leibnizian > thoughts of theodicy: this world is the best of all possible > worlds, which voltaire laughed at as absurd and the rest of > us should look at as a simplisitic apology of worseness that > ameliorates the impetus to change it. > A really good movie will often contain a great villain. The quality of the movie experience is enhanced by the evil of the villain. In fact, you will even hear, on occasion, "Man! He was a perfect villain." Pefect villains make perfect stories. The evil is the contrasting outline of the good inline of existence. According to Royce, perfection isn't a thing, it's a process. THE process - of the good overcoming the bad. Matt] in this case--sure, a conceptual truism, but i tend to think that, just like leibniz trying to fit evil into the truism of the perfection of god, i tend to think it's best to stand aside from thinking of anything as a "perfection," as opposed to a "perfecting," a good sense which can be--but is not the only--sense to be attached to "betterness" being "perfection." John] It sounds like you agree with us (Royce and me), Matt. "Perfecting" as opposed to "Perfection" is exactly the point. Thanks for letting me butt in, John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
