"The fate of the West seems to be condemned to turn, in a painful twist of fate, the line that Goethe puts into Mephistopheles' mouth in Faust: ‘I am the spirit that eternally wants evil and eternally does good.’ The paradox of the West is to believe itself to be Good, to eternally desire Good and to eternally do, in a sort of heterogenesis of ends, Evil. And the fundamental flaw lies precisely in this Manichean distinction between Good and Evil and in the Promethean claim to increase Good at the expense of Evil, wiping it off the face of the earth, when in reality Good and Evil are two sides of the same coin and grow together, the greater the Good, the greater the Evil."
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