0083 According to Houck, prelapsarian Adam could have lived under original justice_2c in two ways (A and B).

The first way (A) is through natural original justice, offering three benefits (A1-A3).  The first benefit (A1) is that prelapsarian Adam’s higher power of reason is subject to God.  The second benefit (A2) is the soul’s lower powers are subject to reason.  The third benefit (A3) is that the body is subjected to the soul.

Aquinas notes that these natural benefits are given to the human species.

0084 In order to appreciate these natural benefits, I unfold the actionable judgment of original justice_2c into a category-based nested form.  A judgment “unfolds” into a category-based nested form on the basis of assigned categories.  Thirdness enters the slot for normal context₃.  Secondness goes to actuality₂.  Firstness becomes possibility₁.

I label the resulting category-based nested form with the term, “commitment_2c“.

0085 How does this cohere to the scholastic insight into the natural benefits of original justice_2c?

First (A1), prelapsarian Adam’s higher power of reason associates to formal causation.  Formal cause pertains to the normal context₃ contextualizing the actuality₂.  Our holistic intellect₃ is characterized by God’s original justice.  Our holistic intellect₃ harmonizes with intelligible phantasms₂, but not with unintelligible phantasms₂.

Second (A2), prelapsarian Adam’s soul (sensate and perceptive) are subject to reason.  That is reason, not philosophy,because philosophy requires speech-alone talk.  The reason of the Lebenswelt that we evolved in practices implicit abstraction.

So, the second benefit goes with final causality.  The entire nested form of commitment_2c is built into the human body and soul as adaptations to the potential of triadic relations.  Our sensations and feelings₁ must be attuned to recognize sign-vehicles from nature and from our own manual-brachial gestures. Our perceptions₂ must intelligibly address the question, “What does this mean to me?”  But, phantasm₂ depends on the normal context₃, an intellect₃ that is holistic, not analytic.

Holistic contexts₃ characterize constrained social complexity.  Individuals within a social circle enter into the same holistic context₃.  This event-space₃ encourages particular sensations and feelings₁, guiding awareness in the perceptive soul₂, which informs and trains the reactive body₂.  The roles of social circles in human evolution is found in Comments on Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar’s Book (2014) Thinking Big.

Third (A3), prelapsarian Adam’s body is subject to his soul.  This keys into the way that instrumental causality binds actuality₂ to potential₁.  The instrumental causality becomes apparent in the interscope of human subjectivity when the body and the soul appear on both the content and situation levels.  Plus, instrumental causality is brought to completion with its incorporation into the final causality that includes a holistic intellect₃.

0086 The second way (B) that prelapsarian Adam lived under original justice_2c is due to sanctifying grace.  Aquinas waffles on this claim, eventually coming down in favor of the presence of sanctifying grace.

0087 Does this resonate with original justice_2c as actionable judgment?

Commitment_2c is how original justice_2c manifests in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.  Original justice_2c unfolds into commitment_2c.  Hand talk cannot image or point to commitment_2c.  Nevertheless, one’s commitment_2c guides behavior.  One’s behavior can be tracked by others.  The resulting feelings_2a give rise to phantasms_2b.  Feelings_2a and phantasms_2bare implicitly abstracted in original justice_2c, inspiring commitments_2c in others.

This looks like a feedback loop to me.  Plus, there is something interesting about this feedback loop.  It originates in divine suprasubjectivity.  Yet, it describes a loop within human subjectivity.

What does this imply?

Perhaps, sanctifying grace demands a comparison of the interscopes of human subjectivity and divine suprasubjectivity.

0088 Here is a picture of human subjectivity, with commitment_2c as the nested form derived from the judgment of original justice.

0089 Here is a picture of divine suprasubjectivity, with original justice_2c as a judgment.