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.]

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]

12/14/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RK

Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84

[The co-opposition of responsibility and freedom allows us to appreciate Schoonenberg ‘s text more fully.

Schoonenberg’s key opposition is between bondage and freedom.

Bondage is in co-opposition with words (expressions and impositions of organizationalobjectives and thinkgroup).

Freedom is in co-opposition to responsibility.]