我听(?)利文斯顿关于邪恶的演讲大约有七分钟。这段时间足以让我对自己说:哦，这不是新鲜事。哦，这不是哲学问题。反正也不是。但是，哲学和新的红发继子心理学之间的对称线似乎是模糊的。也许我们必须两全其美——也许我们必须认识到，就像威尔伯经常说的那样:一切都是真实或真实的。但是,我们必须吗?恩斯特·贝克尔写过《逃离邪恶》和《否认死亡》。我还喜欢贝克尔的另一本大部头——现在我想不起书名了。 There have been dozens of theorists who have tried to explain the evil that men do. I am still working on that---and still believe it has to do with my own notion of historionicity: we get what we deserve; or, in a more modern vernacular: if you always do what you have always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
Finally, the quintessential rock band said: You can't always get what you want... and I said, thirty years later: you don't always want what you get. IF we are lucky enough to get what we need, well, that's just gravy.