Summary of text [comment] page 45<\/p>\n
I continue with page 45, where Schoonenberg accepts that \u201cevil is a statistical necessity\u201d for God\u2019s natural creation and wonders whether it applies to the realm of freedom and morality, that is, to us.\u00a0 Since Schoonenberg accepts de Chardin\u2019s view that \u201cunification\u201d is a \u201claw of nature\u201d (and that \u201cstatistical necessity\u201d applies), evil must also intrinsic be to the level of freedom and morality.<\/p>\n
[To me, what Schoonenberg and de Chardin labeled as \u201cunification\u201d, von Hayek called \u201cspontaneous order\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFailure\u201d or \u201cevil\u201d or \u201cthe falling of actuality back into possibility\u201d is intrinsic to all spontaneous orders.<\/p>\n
Failure is a statistical necessity in the spontaneous orders of biology.\u00a0 Failure is also a statistical necessity in the spontaneous orders of freedom and morality, which appear have something in common with biology, but are not determined by biology.<\/p>\n
The spontaneous orders of freedom and morality incorporate the statistical necessities of biological order, so failures in \u201cecology, environment and definition\u201d or \u201chomeostasis, metabolism or definition\u201d may occur.<\/p>\n
But does that imply that the spontaneous orders of morality and freedom also express the same statistical necessities as the order of biology?]<\/p>\n
Schoonenberg feels compelled to say \u201cyes\u201d.\u00a0 He is obviously not sure why this is so. \u00a0\u00a0He points to St. Paul\u2019s teaching about the flesh, the Councils of Carthage, and Aquinas\u2019 view that one cannot be free of sin without grace.<\/p>\n
[But these resources, rather than supporting a nuanced \u201cyes\u201d, seem to support at tentative \u201cno\u201d.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s teaching about the flesh does not sound, to me, like a warning about \u201cfailure where actuality slips back into possibility\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 It sounds more like a warning about \u201cdesires\u201d that have lost their capacity to integrate into a life-affirming order.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary of text [comment] page 45 I continue with page 45, where Schoonenberg accepts that \u201cevil is a statistical necessity\u201d for God\u2019s natural creation and wonders whether it applies to the realm of freedom and morality, that is, to us.\u00a0 Since Schoonenberg accepts de Chardin\u2019s view that \u201cunification\u201d is a \u201claw of nature\u201d (and that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n