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The Evil We Do Is Informed by Our Ability to Communicate
The images of satan in paradise lost and in dante's inferno are unbelievably instructive. What these thinkers were trying to do was to produce an imaginative representation of evil. And the reason for that is that we've come to represent these transcendent figures of evil in poetry and in movies. We're the first culture ever that said, not, i don't care, iam indifferent to it, but that does produce versions of hell,. because something will take the place of the transcendent point of reference.