Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NU
[In phase two, physicians, friends and loved ones of smokers notice the chronic health problems of habituated smokers.
Another value (health) enters the picture.]
08/1/18
Category Archives: Interscope & Intersection
07/30/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NS
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[I now want to examine ‘the thought experiment where ‘I choose to smoke a tobacco cigarette’’.
Let me start with an off-the-cuff history.]
07/27/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NR
[How does sovereigninfra ban tobacco cigarettes?
Regulation and taxation increase the cost of tobacco cigarettes.
Smoking is banned in particular locations.
And so on.
Some Progressive law firms make lots of money by suing the tobacco companies for elevated health costs from tobacco-related illnesses.
Progressives also raise the cost of the research and development of substitutes for tobacco cigarettes.
Today’s substitutes, available in niche markets, were developed outside the United States of America.]
07/26/18
07/25/18
07/24/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NO
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[What happens to the tobacco smoker?
The mirror of the world (including the progressive regulatory zeitgeist)3a no longer allows value1b to coincide with desire1a.
The following diagram shows the interscope restricted to sensible construction (a two-level interscope.
The next diagram shows the intersection, occurring under the influence of the thinkpro-object of citizen health.]
07/10/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 ND
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[‘Responsibility3(2’ and ‘freedom2(1)’ expand or contract together.
Responsibilities3a(2a contextualize and embrace the somethings2a that my freedom2a(1a) supports.
Contrary to Modernism’s false opposition, responsibilities and freedom are in co-opposition.]
07/9/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NC
[The technical term is ‘reciprocity’
Each of us intuitively knows that nothing is truly free. To accept a gift is to accept the responsibilities of reciprocity.
This raises a fascinating sociological question:
How does one engage in reciprocity with an institution?]
07/6/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NB
[Would anyone offer you anything for ‘free’ (without apparent cost or obligation) in the short run, unless they hoped that the exchange would ‘obligate you, in the long run’?
An alternate approach is to offer ‘free stuff’ means ‘ with strings attached.
These strings (words) are co-opposed to bondage.]
07/5/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NA
[So what happens when, in the Modern opposition, “freedom” is defined as lack of responsibility?
Do less responsibilities mean more freedom?]