10/3/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PL

[An (infra)sovereign religion cannot look at the character of the person. That would require seeing in terms of thinkdivine, a perspective that puts both sovereign and subject into context.

The (infra)sovereign religion can only look at people in terms of thinkpro-object and (its projection of) thinkanti-object.

The subject is reduced to the one accepting the object that brings the subject into organization.

Conformity to thinkpro-object becomes the common core.]

10/1/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PJ

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[Consider the sovereigninfra as a being that reduces the person’s heart in order to impose an organizational good.

What are some of the implications?

Here is one.

This religious being (the sovereigninfra religion) looks down upon the person.

It sees a person (modeled according to the intersecting nested forms) and attempts to directly manipulate features within that model.

The religioninfrasov nudges.

The religioninfrasov pushes.

The religioninfrasov bullies.

The religioninfrasov reduces subjects accused of thinkanti-object to the position of homo sacer (see Giorgio Agamben).]

09/24/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PE

[The Progressive desires to organize opposition to tobacco products.

The Progressive pretends that a healthy lifestyle is an object that brings the individual into organization.

Is that Satanic?

No, if it aims to build the person’s character, to inform “him” of the consequences of “his” actions.

Yes, if it aims to impose the objectorganization upon the individual through sovereign power.

The former builds a person of greater responsibility and freedom.

The latter does not.]