When many people have a hard time admitting something can do *any* harm, there's almost always a group who can't admit that the thing can do *any* good. Both are fixated on the thing being overall-good-valence or overall-bad-valence.
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Does anybody argue that monism precedes dualism in a stadial/developmental sense? I have a hard time not seeing dualism as the primordial reality.
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a guy called Phil Stevens argues that the distinction between good & bad magic is a modern invention which sounds batshit to me
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i don't think it's ENTIRELY batshit in the weak sense of magic being more neutral historically without a clear "BLACK MAGIC" or "HOLY MAGIC" division. but i definitely bet people saw certain magic ACTS as having been good or bad, rather than the magic itself
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hard to know what sources would get to the fact of the matter - anthropology? primary sources in history? most of the people involved in magic in the relevant times probably aren't literate
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