ABSTRACT
Tragedy is based on a view of competing goods which are inexorably intertwined, each and each with a particular evil. For the introductory sorting out of positions, the important thing to note is that illusion and absurdity must be somehow limited even if merely by a single factor in order for good and evil to count. Any functional consideration has the Aristotelian practical organon for acting to achieve a purpose, whether that purpose is a specific good or a specific evil. The essential Marquis de Sade is in the evil possibilities of the imagination; moreover, the very contradiction of the imagination is actualized in the victimizer-victim relation. Within a range of variant qualities where evil is an instrument of an ultimate good, even in such an atheist and secular thinker as the Hegelian, Karl Marx. Consider a literary presentation of the Marxist view.
