The prophet cites the converse problem as well: considering what is good to be evil. The insight about the moral inversion of considering evil to be a positive good is an echo of Scripture: the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good. gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination. Shakespeare’s villains stopped at a few corpses “because they had no ideology,” nothing to compare with Marxism-Leninism’s “scientific” and infallible explanations of life and ethics. Before interrogators could torture prisoners they knew were innocent, they had to discover a justification for their actions. Shakespeare and Schiller clearly did not grasp evil, Solzhenitsyn instructs, because their villains “recognize themselves as evildoers, and they know their souls are black,” but those who commit the greatest harm think of themselves as good. I was struck by a quotation that Morson gives from this sublime Christian author (my bolds): But that article and the great book it discusses are not the main subject of this post.
Read it if you have the chance, though it’s unfortunately behind a paywall.
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