Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TE
[So what is the single actuality that is the intersection of Descartes’ determination2V and his thoughts that situates himself as a container of doubt2H?
It is the heart of Descartes.]
02/20/19
02/19/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TD
[Can Descartes’ formula be framed as an intersection with the same structure as the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’?
The fact that I think serves as a thought experiment3H.
What I think2H emerges from and situates my potential as a container of thoughts1H.
I am3V is the seat of what I think, which, in the case of Descartes, is doubt3V.
My determination of myself, as the seat of ‘what I think’2V, both emerges from and situates a possibility that is independent of myself as a container of thoughts1V.]
02/18/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TC
[In scholastic terms, the thinker–container belongs to ens reale (mind-independent realness) even though ‘thinking itself’ goes with ens rationis (mind-dependent realness).
Yet, the mind-independent-ness of the thinker as container is different than what the scholastics understood ‘ens reale’ to be.]
02/15/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 TB
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[The prior blog reminds me of the quandry posed by Decartes’ formula, “I think, therefore I am”.
“I think” goes with ideas inside of me. “Therefore, I am” asserts the existence of the thinker (as a container of I think).]
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”.]
02/11/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SX
[IF the narrow confines of words and bondage never inspire the person to say: “This is not my choice. Or maybe, this is not my desire.”
THEN everything but the heart is swept into the drama.
The interscope still applies. Values1b cohere to desires1a.]
02/8/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SW
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
Schoonenberg quoted John 8:31-35 and summed up as follows:
The heart the whole person is free only when it is bound to God.
The heart remains a slave when in sin.
[What does this imply?
Is a person not whole until they have a heart?
A broken heart?]
02/7/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SV
[In the intersection, words3H(2, thoughts3V(2, deeds2(1V)) and bondage2(1H)), all share one actuality: the heart2.
So I can imagine that …
… law corrupts the normal context of I, seat of choice3V.
… sin corrupts the normal context of ‘the mirror of the world3H’.
… death begins when both sin and law corrupt the heart2, the single actuality that is my choice2V and something that situates my potential2H.
Sin and law are vectors.
Death is the symptom.]