{"id":4861,"date":"2021-04-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T23:29:42","slug":"looking-at-jeff-hardins-essay-2019-biology-and-theological-anthropology-part-2-of-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Jeff Hardin&#8217;s Essay (2019) &#8220;Biology and Theological Anthropology&#8221; (Part 2 of 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0008 In order to appreciate how science and metaphysics mirror one another, I turn to&nbsp;<em>Comments on Jacques Maritain&#8217;s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy<\/em>&nbsp;(available at the smashwords website under the&nbsp;<em>Empirio-schematic series<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science is successfully born at&nbsp;<em>the start of the modern age,<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>the formulation of the Positivist&#8217;s judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is a judgment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A judgment is&nbsp;<em>a relation<\/em>&nbsp;between&nbsp;<em>&#8216;what is&#8217;<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>&#8216;what ought to be&#8217;<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;When the elements are assigned to Peirce&#8217;s categories, the judgment becomes actionable.&nbsp;&nbsp;Actionable judgments unfold into category-based nested forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0009 Here is a diagram of the Positivist&#8217;s judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/figure-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/figure-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/figure-01.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/figure-01-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0010 The positivist intellect, the&nbsp;<em>relation<\/em>, insists on a rule: No metaphysics.&nbsp;&nbsp;Surely, this is one reason why scientific inquiry into human evolution grates against theological anthropology.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;is an empirio-schematic judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disciplinary language (<em>relation<\/em>) brings observations and measurements (<em>what is<\/em>) into relation with mathematical and mechanical models (<em>what ought to be<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0011 What is&nbsp;<em>what is?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What is<\/em>&nbsp;has the structure of Peirce&#8217;s secondness.&nbsp;&nbsp;The category of secondness is the realm of actuality.&nbsp;&nbsp;Secondness consists of two contiguous real elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, the two real elements,\u00a0<em>a noumenon<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>its phenomena<\/em>, belong to firstness, the realm of potential.\u00a0\u00a0<em>The noumenon<\/em>,\u00a0<em>the thing itself<\/em>, has\u00a0<em>the potential of capturing the attention of the positivist intellect<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Its<\/em>\u00a0<em>phenomena<\/em>, observable and measurable facets of the thing, have\u00a0<em>the potential of activating an empirio-schematic judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contiguity is most curious.\u00a0\u00a0I place the contiguity in brackets.\u00a0\u00a0<em>A noumenon [cannot be objectified as] its phenomena<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0008 In order to appreciate how science and metaphysics mirror one another, I turn to&nbsp;Comments on Jacques Maritain&#8217;s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy&nbsp;(available at the smashwords website under the&nbsp;Empirio-schematic series). 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