Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PK
10/2/18
Category Archives: Defining Religion
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).]
09/28/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PI
[Summary of text [comment] page 83
With regulation, I, seat of choice3V, is reduced to a subject to the sovereigninfra.
The mirror of the world3V forcibly aligns my choice2V with the thinkpro-object of the sovereign religion.
The words3H(2H of the sovereign place me in bondage2H(IH)).]
09/27/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PH
[With conversion, I, seat of choice3V, chooses something worth choosing2V that may conflict with many of my own tendencies1H.
I resolve my internal conflict by training my desires1H.
I begin to exercise new potential in me1H.]
09/26/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PG
[There is more potential in me1a than can be reflected by any human-instituted mirror of the world3a.
Conversion increases the person’s responsibility and freedom.
Regulation reduces the person’s responsibility and freedom.]
09/25/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PF
[Should harmful practices and behaviors be regulated?
The question is, of course, rhetorical.
It is the question posed by the Big Government Liberal in the mirror of the world3a.]
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.]
09/21/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PD
[When I smoke habitually, my entire heart may grow larger.
I may convince myself that I am brave and accept responsibility.
But I know that I, seat of choice3V, have chosen recklessly.
My own heart2 betrays what I could have been1V.]
09/20/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PC
[Health-minded institutions not try to regulate human behavior by demanding sovereign power.
They should try to influence human behavior by presenting facts that induce dread.
This is the opposite view from Big Government Liberalism.]
09/19/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PB
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[If governments do not regulate tobacco cigarettes, then the subject’s responsibilities and freedom increase.
Health-minded institutions must step in.
They must remind the smoker of “his” responsibilities and freedom.
In doing so, they build character.]