On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology — trans. C. E. Rolt
The translator’s English as printed (C. E. Rolt). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
destroyed if it had not grown feeble and so become worthy to be destroyed. (D. here, in his zeal to explain evil away, countenances the base doctrine that might is right. What is wrong with the whole system of the universe is that its underlying law is the survival of the fittest. The enlightened conscience of humanity rebels against this law.)
1 The weakness is an imperfect good, and therefore the process of destruction which co-operates with the weakness is an imperfect good.
2 The Good is permanent. Hence its contrary must be unstable.
3 Evil is essentially a negative and self-contradictory thing. Its very permanence would be opposed to its own nature and would be due to an element of the Good within it.
destroyed if it had not grown feeble and so become fit to be destroyed. (Here D., in his zeal to explain evil away, lends countenance to the base doctrine that might is right. What is wrong with the whole system of the universe is that its underlying law is the survival of the fittest. The enlightened conscience of humanity rebels against this law.)
1 The weakness is an imperfect good, and so the process of destruction that co-operates with the weakness is an imperfect good.
2 The Good is permanent. Hence its contrary must be unstable.
3 Evil is essentially a negative and self-contradictory thing. Its very permanence would be opposed to its own nature and would be due to an element of the Good within it.