Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 GC
[How about an example?
Here is a scenario.
My friend calls. She tells me that there are great apples on sale at the farmer’s market.
I think, ‘Maybe I should be canning apple sauce for the winter.’]
[How about an example?
Here is a scenario.
My friend calls. She tells me that there are great apples on sale at the farmer’s market.
I think, ‘Maybe I should be canning apple sauce for the winter.’]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Does the potential that underlies my choice1b virtually emerge from and situate the possibilities inherent in me1a?
Does value1b virtually emerge from and situate desire1a?
Let me walk through this.
The first step is to look at the content-level nested form.
A thought experiment3a brings something (revealing desire)2a into relation with the possibilities inherent in me (corresponding to desire)1a.
The second step is goes with the situation level.
I decide3b about this something2a.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[The two nested forms may either interscope or intersect.
They interscope according to the previous diagram.
I, seat of choice3 belongs to a higher category.
Why?
It virtually situates the thought experiment3-lower level.
In other words, a possibility inherent in something (revealing my desire)2, lower level offers the opportunity for ‘I3, higher level’ to make ‘a choice2, higher level’.
The two levels, for sensible construction, are situation and content.]
[The actualities of something2a and my choice2b are readily apparent to others.
My choice2b virtually emerges from and situates my desire2a.
So let me write these two nested forms out explicitly.
I, seat of choice3b( my choice2b( something corresponding to value1b))
Thought experiment3a( something corresponding to desire2a( me1a))]
[The possibility underlying my choice1b sounds like the word “value”.
So does the thought experiment3a taking me?
The thought experiment3 brings something2a into relation with the possibilities inherent in me1a.
The possibilities inherent in me1a sound like the word “desire”.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Where does I, seat of choice3b take me?
I, the seat of choice3b or perhaps, my heart2 determines the meaning of something1b. I3b guarantee that meaning1b
Plus, a message about something3b comes from me (my seat and my heart) when my choice has been made2b.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[In section 2.3, Schoonenberg discusses freedom.
My model for freedom is the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
So, I ask the question:
When I, the seat of choice chooses, do I choose a value?
If so, how does value link to the word ‘freedom’?]