ABSTRACT

The one is that of the logical coexistence of evil with “good” in the moral judgment, the other one is that of the empirical reality of factual doings that can be morally judged to be evil, and the third is ontological realness in the sense of subsistence. The problem with C.G. Jung’s comments is of course that tacitly, by implication, he uses the idea that evil coexists with good within the moral judgment to support his thesis of a very different reality of evil. God is pulled down to the level of a human, all-too-human person with merely subjective emotions in the context of empirical-practical reality. Jung’s insistence that the two hands or two sons of God are completely compatible with monotheism is significant in this context: in his scheme, the disharmony belongs to a logically lower level.