{"id":4955,"date":"2021-06-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T23:21:40","slug":"looking-at-kirk-kanzelbergers-essay-2020-reality-and-the-meaning-of-evil-part-12-of-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Kirk Kanzelberger&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Reality and the Meaning of Evil&#8221; (Part 12 of 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0049 Kanzelberger writes, \u201cMoral evil deflects from a norm which the voluntary agent is conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0050 What about the agent\u2019s unconscious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the story of Adam and Eve bring, to consciousness, the arrival of an evil, a privation, that natural selection ruled out by grounding talk in gesture, even in its final incarnation, hand-speech talk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0051 In&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>our hand and hand-speech talk words<\/em>&nbsp;overflow with meaning, because they image and indicate the things that they refer to.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The referent itself<\/em>&nbsp;defines&nbsp;<em>the word<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;How can a gesture-word be false?&nbsp;&nbsp;How can a gesture-word be deceptive?&nbsp;&nbsp;They are pictures and pointings, even though they operate in a symbolic order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt,<\/em>&nbsp;our spoken words do not image or point to anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0052 How horrifying and unbelievable is that?&nbsp;&nbsp;How deep does the privation go?&nbsp;&nbsp;Does it trap our desire?&nbsp;&nbsp;Does it entangle our will?&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>What does this mean to me<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;brings&nbsp;<em>the actuality of moral thinking in phantasms<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into relation with&nbsp;<em>the possibility of objectivity<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>, on the basis of a thing or event<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;which now, consists of&nbsp;<em>spoken words<sub>2a<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;which are&nbsp;<em>sequences of formant frequencies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moral evil arises when our spoken words<sub>2a<\/sub>, which are purely symbolic, sow and reap\u00a0<em>the joys of symbolic privation within our phantasms<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0We find the right words to both express and conceal our falsehoods and deceptions.\u00a0\u00a0Prostitution is not the world\u2019s oldest profession.\u00a0\u00a0The oldest job is\u00a0<em>to tell someone something that they want to hear<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, that is prostitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0049 Kanzelberger writes, \u201cMoral evil deflects from a norm which the voluntary agent is conscious.\u201d 0050 What about the agent\u2019s unconscious? 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