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Originally Posted by Ea
Beppe, I wonder how you get from there - to Pandora's box? Pandora accidentally let lose evils upon the world - do you really consider knowledge evil?
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This doesn't refer directly to your question to Beppe, but I couldn't resist inserting this as an interesting aside to your reference to Pandora's Box. I have always heard the tale told with Hope being the one thing left to humanity that makes all the evils in the box bearable. Nietzsche, however, had an interesting contrary take to my understanding, which seems to have been more in line with the story's original meaning:
.....Precisely because of its ability to keep the unfortunate in continual suspense, the Greeks considered hope the evil of evils, the truly insidious evil: it remained behind in the barrel of evils.
..........— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher.
The Antichrist (1888), translated by Walter Kaufmann.