According to platonic philosophy (and individual) opinion is it best to call the demiurge evil? Or simply inept?
>inb4 Gnosticism
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Neoplatonics would be hard pressed to view the Demiurge as anything LESS than inept, up to and including full blown benevolent. which Timaeus asserts very stiffly.
It's only around the time of Plotinus' reaching toward henology that the point of view starts to erode.
Apparently the Pythagoreans were also speculating on nature of demiurge, covered in:
https://arcaneknowledgeofthedeep.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/pythagorasandpythagoreans.pdf
(yeah yeah I know, arcanewhatever in the url, here's the link to the text on Amazon to clarify reliability http://www.amazon.com/Pythagoras-Pythagoreans-Charles-H-Kahn/dp/0872205754 )
