Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TO
[Free will, consciencespecified1V, points to ideas inside of me.
From this potential, ‘what is good and what is bad2’ emerges. This actuality points to the world outside of me.]
03/6/19
Category Archives: Defining Religion
03/1/19
02/14/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TA
[If I can compare this nested form to the one derived from ‘the thought experiment where ‘I choose ‘something’‘ …
… then consciencespecified1V matches something1V in the potentials inherent in something that I may choose1V.
Something1V corresponds to value1V.]
02/13/19
02/12/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SY
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[What is the categorical nature of this term “free will”?
Consciencefree and conscienceunfree appear as competing potentials in the intersecting nested form that describes the message underlying the word, “religion”.
To me, these seem to correspond to the label “free will”.]
01/23/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SK
[The thought experiment where ‘I choose ‘something’ serves as a categorical tool for investigating Schoonenberg’s passage on responsibility and freedom.
What Schoonenberg expressed, the text itself, stands within the shell of Modernism.
What Schoonenberg was required to express as a Jesuit theologian included the husk of pre-modern Scholasticism.
Perhaps, only by dying in the cryptotheology of Modernism (with its complete fixation on the realm of actuality) and by cracking the coat of pre-modern Scholasticism (with its reliance on signs, without knowing ‘what signs are’), could this text germinate into an exercise in postmodern Scholasticism.]
01/22/19
01/2/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RV
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Welfare and other transfer payments are particularly deceptive.
When does getting something for free (one of the ways that the government attains its objectsorganization) sound like an “responsibility”?
Yet, it imposes the unavoidable: The recipient must vote for the Party of Larger Government.
In order to do that, the recipient justifies “himself” through state propaganda.]
12/31/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RU
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Laws are written in words. These words impose the unavoidable on others.
Why do legislatures exempt themselves from their own legislation?]
12/27/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RS
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[The imposition of the sovereign proceeds first, in words, then second, in unavoidable obligations.
Is it hard to see that words convey obligations?
I may use words in order to avoid obligations for me. But does that not amount to imposing the unavoidable on you?
Unlike responsibility, words have winners and losers, just like politics]