Great question my good friend.
" I would say the sinner makes his own hell by doing evil and the saint his own heaven by doing right".
On your question is the evil the absence of good let me share this to you. Because we act for conscious ends, we suppose that all processes have such ends in view and because we are humans we suppose that all events lead up to man and are designed to subserve his needs. But this is an anthropocentric desulusion like so much of our thinking. The root of the greatest errors in philosophy lies in projecting our own human purposes, criteria and preferences into the objective universe.
Hence our problem of evil. We strive to reconcile the ills of life with the goodness of God, forgetting the lesson taught, that God is beyond our little good and evil Good and bad are relative to human and often individual tastes and ends, and have no validity for a universe in which individuals are ephemera, and in which the moving finger writes even the history of the race in water.
Bad and good are prejudices which the eternal reality cannot recognize. It is right that the world should illustrate the full nature of the infinite and not merely the particular ideals of man. And as good with bad, so with ugly and the beautiful, these two are subjective and personal terms which flung at the unverse will be returned to the sender unhonored.
2007-09-14 20:23:09
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answered by Third P 6
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It's both but absence is far more common.
On the spiritual level neither truly exist. They are a duality created to describe how we affect others. The parent that ignores their children are good compared to the parent that beats their children. From the ideal position both are evil.
Nothing is good or evil except that thinking makes it so. Two gays in love that wish to marry are just another two people in love to me so it isn't good or evil. If I were a fundamentalist it would be a situation that required drastic measures like political efforts to stop the evil.
One must decide if the perceived harm is legitimate harm.
I think the last old man that was still angry about the immoral practice of allowing women to vote died in 1987 at the age of 97. No one fears what outraged him now.
2007-09-14 19:02:31
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answered by gnosticv 5
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*edited*
good is what would benefit others or yourself without anything bad happening in the process
bad/evil in that matter is the absence of good in which it is ALSO the opposite of good
2007-09-14 19:05:33
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answered by No One 2
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Neither.
Just there is one thing : truth . And we come to know it little by little. When our knowledge is partial, we make mistakes which are regarded as bad deeds. As we grow and our knowledge increases, we have a better glance of the truth; then our actions are more harmonious with it; here people call them good deeds.
Thus, can we say evil is the primordial stage?
Thanks for the Q.
2007-09-14 21:26:40
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answered by I'm nobody! 3
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opposite
2007-09-14 19:00:14
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answer #5
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answered by cattledog 7
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good and evil are relative.
One person's good is another person's evil and, another person's good can be still another's evil.
It is the conditioning since we were born that determines good and evil for us.
The problem escalates when we judge other people with our 'conditioned' standards.
Judge not; as you too will be judged.
The person who is conditioned to view what is evil for you as good is not affected by your views - but the judger is the one who suffers watching what is 'evil.
See 'Robin Hood' was he evil or good? Depends on whose side he was on!
2007-09-14 19:58:33
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answered by mahen 4
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The second you label something good you create bad.
And vice versa.
Suppose there are neither.
2007-09-14 19:36:43
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answered by Clint 4
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It is being not aware of the good.
2007-09-14 19:09:20
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answered by Anonymous
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