Good and evil
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
evil · good · bad · goods · khayr · sharr · الخير · الشر
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The polarity of khayr and sharr, whose mixture, purification, willing and hating supply the operative criteria for every rank in the two moral orderings of the soul.
And if he wills the good at one time and evil at another, it is a soul that turns about, in one state reproaching and in another commanding.
and if he apprehends evil and inclines to it, he is more astray than the cattle and is like Satan, and his soul is that which commands to evil.
Then, after these, the rational soul (al-nafs al-nāṭiqah) which we have mentioned, which is neither a body nor bodily;
Adversus Hermogenem
Moral categories debated as to whether they are substances with place, or mere relations, in connection with Matter's motion.
For when you wish to introduce Matter as neither good nor evil, Therefore, you say, the underlying Matter, having a motion of equal momentum, inclines greatly neither to good nor to evil.
42. You have scattered all things, lest, set side by side, they should shine out as contrary to each other. But I will gather the individual points and confer them. You assert the motion of Matter to be unfounded, and you add that it followed formlessness; then elsewhere, that it desired to be composed by God. Does that which follows formlessness desire formation? Or does that which desires format …
Memorabilia
Moral and practical value categories shown to depend on consequences rather than conventional praise.
But when can health possibly be the cause of evil, or sickness of good?
Then health and sickness too must be good when their effect is good, and evil when it is evil.
Well, said Socrates, I may assume, I take it, that you know what things are good and what are evil?