Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UV
[Big government (il)liberals reduce American citizens with their words.
Progressives desire to put all Americans (outside the state itself) into bondage.]
04/19/19
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt
04/17/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 US
[The use of the law in the name of ‘social justice’ serves as an example.
The use manifests the sin of pride through overt displays of scruples.
This is called virtue signaling.]
03/28/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 UE
[What does this observation imply?
Did the word “free” shift within a changing symbolic order?]
02/21/19
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.]
01/15/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 SE
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Some people do not like the word “Satan.
Perhaps another word for the perspective level is the German word: Zeitgeist.
“Zeit” means ‘of the times’.
“Geist” means ‘spirit’.
Perhaps, Zeitgeist could become a technical word:
geistProgressive]
01/2/19
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RV
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Welfare and other transfer payments are particularly deceptive.
When does getting something for free (one of the ways that the government attains its objectsorganization) sound like an “responsibility”?
Yet, it imposes the unavoidable: The recipient must vote for the Party of Larger Government.
In order to do that, the recipient justifies “himself” through state propaganda.]
12/31/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RU
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Laws are written in words. These words impose the unavoidable on others.
Why do legislatures exempt themselves from their own legislation?]
12/13/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RJ
[Modern propaganda asserts that sovereign words (pro-object rhetoric and legislation) do not change incentives’
This assertion underlies the static economic analysis that always fails to predict the cost of central government impositions.]
12/3/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 RB
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[The rules of the camp depend on the capricious will of the sovereign director-dictator.]