Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZX
[Multiculturalism3 is exclusive.
The multiculture2 is full of ‘diversity’.
There is only one cultivation1: the religion of big government (il)liberalism.]
10/25/19
10/24/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZW
[By the way, this puts the lie to the postreligious (enlightenment) religious obsession labeled ‘multiculturalism’.]
10/23/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZV
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[The normal context3 is like a gardener who tends her plants and cultivates the soil3.
“Her” garden2 is full of diversity.
However, there is only one garden … one cultivation1.]
10/22/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZU
[The normal context3 brings what can be composed and decomposed2 into relation with a potential that cannot be composed or decomposed1.
The realm obeying the laws of exclusivity3 brings the realm that obeys the laws of non-contradiction2 into relation with the realm that is inclusive and allows contradictions1.
‘The mirror of the world3’ is rooted in the realm obeying the laws of exclusivity3.]
10/21/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZT
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[I suspect that the common rootedness of all normal contexts comes from the fact that they all bring an actuality (which is dyadic and may be decomposed into any number of dyadic relations) into relation with a possibility (which is monadic and so may not be decomposed).]
10/18/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZS
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[A mirror of the world3 taps into the other triadic relations found in An Archaeology of the Fall and How to Define the Word ‘Religion’. These include:
‘the system3’ of ‘a system3 of differences1’
a symbolic order3
an animating prinicple3
a mediator3
a normal context3
lawessential3
thinkgroup_or_divine3]
10/17/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZR
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[Maybe I should have said, in the last blog, the following:
The image of a mirror of the world3H radically grounds the images of both the thought experiment3H and the light source3H.
I like the words radical and grounds.
“Radical” derives from the word root. “Grounds” reminds me of soil.]
10/16/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZQ
[Both the ‘thought experiment3H’ and the ‘nature and source of light3H’ could be called the ‘mirror of the world3H’.
The image of a mirror neatly captures both ‘the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’‘ and ‘the experiment where, with a light source, ‘I see something’‘.]
10/15/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZP
[For the single actuality:
(1) My heart2 combines my choice2V and something situating the potential in me2H.
(2) What I see2 combines my attention2V and my sight situating my potential2H.]
10/14/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZO
[For the horizontal axis:
(1) Thought experiment3H( my heart2( potential in me1H))
Compares to:
(2) Nature and source of light3H( what I see2H (potential in me1H))]