Mackie: The Third Order Good Of Evil

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defining souls as distinct from bodies and minds that do not communicate through the channel of logic with evil but with evol. The 3rd order good of free will, I argue, is dualistic to the 3rd order evol of death. Death is an evol that the soul communicates healthy with the soul and unhealthy with the mind-body. Think about the time you lost a love one and questioned god, or your higher power, from an intellectual standpoint? You may have asked, why did god take your loved one? Logically god wont respond to you cries, for many have proclaimed that god, or your higher power, does not communicate with everyone in the same manner, and that manner does not involve immediate reciprocity.
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As Mackie has already argued the humans free will has created these levels of evils that are suppose to provide justification for evil, 1st order evil, second order good, 3rd order good. Let’s consider the 1st order evil of pain, which can be argued to be a mental faculty or a bodily faculty. However, given the definition of the body that I have provided pain is an embodied experience that responds bodily based upon attitudes it has as propositions concerning religious beliefs. Therefore the soul of an individual, separate from the body does not respond to the first order evil of pain because they communicate to two separate parts of a person. The second order good that is the better of the 1st order evil, in this instance pleasure, would be again an embodied process that is influenced from attitudes based upon propositions about religious beliefs. Consider the twenty-five year old who got into a bad car accident and experience the 1st order evil, that is also a natural evil, of pain and if wallowing in tears and anguish. The phenomenon of this embodiment is experienced through the corporeal part of the body that includes the mind and the physical body. Therefore, when there is an embodiment of pleasure the same will occur, there will be joy and happiness given the experience that is being embodied by the individual. What I am trying to show is that the faculties which all respond to reason are active during experiencing the types of evils that the corporeal parts of the mind communicate through. They are active because that girl has had a proposition, religious or non religious, that has manifested some sort of attitude that influenced the content of her belief of pain and pleasure. As an effect, at the time the twenty-five girl got into the car

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