Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAI
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[Where does reason come in?
Reason may alter I, seat of choice3V, in relation to the possibilities underlying my choice1V.]
11/11/19
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11/1/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAC
[By changing the illumination of ‘the mirror of the world3H’, grace changes the potential in me1H.
Grace illuminates and draws something out of me1H that never seemed possible before.]
10/31/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAB
[Is grace to be found in the mirror of the world3H?
Grace increases the capacity of responsibility3H(2H and, through the co-opposition, the opportunities for freedom2H(1H).
Grace decreases the incapacities generated by words3H(2H and, through the co-opposition, the burdens of bondage2H(1H).]
10/30/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BAA
Summary of text [comment] page 88
[At this point, I am ready to imagine how grace fits into the intersecting nested forms of the thought experiment where ‘I choose something’.
I am tempted to envision the gift of the Holy Spirit as indwelling in thirdness on the horizontal scale, ‘the thought experiment3H’.
The Holy Spirit parallels ‘the source and nature of the light3H’.]
10/29/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZZ
[Sovereign power, in the attempt to contextualize itself, reduces other possibilities.
In doing this, sovereign power increases risk.
Who cares if people appear different when they all think the same?
Well, the person who does not think the same cares.
The person who does not think the same faces increased risk.
Thinkmulticulturalism is thinkconformity.]
10/28/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ZY
[This example points to a strange aspect of the realm of possibility.
The monadic realm includes the possibility of no other possibilities.
This option suggests a mode of operation of sovereign power.
Sovereign power, in the attempt to contextualize itself, reduces other possibilities.]
10/25/19
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.]
10/24/19
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.]
07/30/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 XO
[Modernism fixates on the rules of non-contradiction.
And now, 50 years after Schoonenberg wrestled with a Zeitgeist full of false dichotomies, the modern way of thought is dying.
Long dismissed religious and philosophical ideas spring to life.
The concept of the nested form may seem new and bizarre.
But it is not new.
The premoderns wrote according to the nested form without explicitly knowing the structure of the nested form.
Soon enough, the category-based nested form will become routine.
Then, people will look back at the divided moderns and wonder:
How could they have been so stupid?]