The good and the evil III: The world which is devoid of traces

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleΤό καλό καί τό κακό Γ: Ὁ ἄϊχνος κόσμος
3. Language term Greek, Modern (1453-)
4. lemma author Koutalis, Vangelis
5. lemma category Modes of interaction > Antagonism - Orthodox Anthropology - Ethics
6. Publication date 26-02-2017
7. lemma work Malevitsis, Christos [Author]. The good and the evil III: The world which is devoid of traces
8. lemma manifestations Ευθύνη
9. Keywords right reason - poetry - Plato - Hidden God
10. Citations
    1. <p>Malevitsis, Ch. [Μαλεβίτσης Χ.] (1995). Τό καλό καί τό κακό Γ: Ὁ ἄϊχνος κόσμος. <em>Εὐθύνη</em>, <em>282</em>, 311-312.</p>
11. Lemma body

    1. Everything that exists, according to Malevitsis, bears the traces of the hidden God. The worldly task assigned to human beings is to discover these traces, one by one. Poetry, the mission of which is to make things visible with the traces of the hidden God incised upon them, leads the way in this pursuit. To live virtuously is to live poetically. A good action is not ultimately but merely functionally good, if it does not unveil the divine trace, the seal of eternity that has been impressed upon it. Conversely, a genuinely good action should not be defined as moral, but as ontological, as an action of the eternal subject.

       Science and right reason (ὀρθός λόγος) have objectified everything. Our world seems to be cleared off of the divine traces. The world which is devoid of traces though, is the world of the fall and of the absence of glory. We are sunk in darkness even at high noon. Only some great poetic consciousnesses, such as that of Plato, can discern the faint signs of light and build upon them a vision of the world “under the eternal sight of the Good”.