tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post675115329042406508..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: The locality of evilAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-15415606973588139862010-05-02T11:22:47.731-05:002010-05-02T11:22:47.731-05:00Something that is beautiful is good insofar as it ...Something that is beautiful is good <em>insofar as it is beautiful</em>. It might be bad in other ways.<br /><br />If beauty is entirely relative, then maybe everything is beautiful to some degree. That would be a happy result.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-84503993156189265422010-05-02T06:58:58.224-05:002010-05-02T06:58:58.224-05:00Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Taking your example further is it e...Mmmmmmmmmmmmm<br /><br />Taking your example further is it evil if a good novel disappears before you finish reading it? <br /><br />I confess I find the relationship <br /><br />Beautiful -> good dubious.<br /><br />If Beautiful -> good<br />=> not good -> not beautiful<br /><br />Yet something ugly might be good too. <br /><br />Also beauty is a relative terms, the Belle of the ball might be in another party a plain Jane.BernardZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622939509620948476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-7746786980966764732010-05-01T08:11:51.717-05:002010-05-01T08:11:51.717-05:00At least typically, the black hole's interacti...At least typically, the black hole's interaction is rather more complex than just swallowing up stars. We have a black hole in the center of our galaxy, and it surely contributes to the behavior of the stars around it. <br /><br />Moreover, I think that in aesthetic goods, the cessation of the good need not be an evil: it is not an evil when a good novel comes to an end, though there can be a kind of sadness in us at it. Aesthetic goods can have particular extensions in spacetime, and so it can be good that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Cluster" rel="nofollow">Double Cluster</a> (a really beautiful object, I think) occupies such-and-such a four-dimensional volume of spacetime, without there being a bad when it eventually dissolves into constituent stars.<br /><br />The reason for the asymmetry--it's good for there to be beauty in astronomical objects but not bad for beauty to cease to be--is that beauty in inorganic things is not a <em>due</em> good (in the way in which the peacock's beauty may be a due good--the ugly peacock may be defective), but as it were a <em>supererogatory</em> good. The absence or cessation of a supererogatory action is not an evil, and likewise the absence or cessation of a supererogatory good is not an evil and maybe not even a bad.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-63869272558077718142010-05-01T06:33:11.667-05:002010-05-01T06:33:11.667-05:00Are beautiful and complex arrangements of stars an...Are beautiful and complex arrangements of stars and galaxies good in the sense that we use "Good and Evil"?<br /><br /><br />If so why could a Black hole not be considered evil, and it could swallow up such beautiful and complex arrangements?BernardZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018112944601616875noreply@blogger.com