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From. Conceive of an Infinite Medea. Or Infinite possible Medeas. Or parallel Medeas. Or infinite possible parallel Medeas. Existing simultaneously. Then ask, question yourself: is the infinite perfect or imperfect? For Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle the finite is perfect, complete; hence the infinite, imperfect: incomplete. Think of perfection as Parmenides’ Sphere. It lacks nothing. It has reached its end 3⁄4 good end, that is.2 This is implied in Aristotle’s ‘perfect thief’ metaphor. [Which might evoke Jason in some, Medea in others, or America, etc.]. Just as perfect evil belongs only to evil-ness, perfect good belongs only to good-ness.3 Hence, in perfect goodness, no evil exists; in perfect evil, no goodness exists. But because the perfect-ness of perfect (the finite) is the good and not evil, evil is imperfect and hence infinite. Flaw is infinite. Infinite evil. [Others say: evil is ignorance of that which is]. Evil is flawed action 3⁄4 serious action: spoudaios 3⁄4 flawed action is Tragedy: imperfect and infinite, irrational and Dionysian.
1 Essay art. (1). (2). (3). http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/slides/a15.jpeg&imgrefurl. Slide 15. Metamorphoses Bk VII: 394-397 Medea Kills Her Children, Picart et al.
2Aristotle. Met. 16, 1021b 12-1022 to 2. Aristotle. The Basic Works of Aristotle. Metaphysics. Ed. Richard McKeon. New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
3 Plato’s Theory of Forms. Plato. Complete Works. Republic and Phaedo. Ed. John M. Cooper. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 1997.
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