{"id":4960,"date":"2021-06-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:14:48","slug":"looking-at-kirk-kanzelbergers-essay-2020-reality-and-the-meaning-of-evil-part-14-of-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Kirk Kanzelberger&#8217;s Essay (2020) &#8220;Reality and the Meaning of Evil&#8221; (Part 14 of 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0056 Kanzelberger lays out the moral theodrama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The mystery of iniquity<\/em>&nbsp;starts to unfold when I come up with&nbsp;<em>\u2018something\u2019 objective<sub>1b<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;without attention to the rules of reason and the divine law<sub>1c<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;At first, the objective<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;sets aside the suprasubjective<sub>1c<\/sub>, by not admitting to the intersubjective<sub>1b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I<\/em>&nbsp;decide&nbsp;<em>what makes sense<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0057 Isn\u2019t this the nature of concupiscence?&nbsp;&nbsp;Why should I worry about right reason or Yahweh\u2019s law?&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m going to hang out with Cupid.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cupid likes me.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cupid agrees with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;<em>a phantasm<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;of deliciously-worded<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;desire<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;becomes habitual, self-justification<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;strains towards the intersubjective<sub>1b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;For self-deception<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;to become openly regarded, it must first become intersubjective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I, a self-deceiver<sub>3b<\/sub>, search out a team that will judge<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;my privation<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;as virtuous and true.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let&nbsp;<em>my intersubjective<sub>2b<\/sub>habit<\/em>&nbsp;find&nbsp;<em>an accommodating suprasubjectivity<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, I may join the club.&nbsp;&nbsp;I may join&nbsp;<em>the secret society that does not pay attention to some aspect of the rule of reason or the divine law<sub>1c<\/sub>, then justifies the consequences<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact,&nbsp;<em>our common intersubjective privation<sub>2b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;reflects&nbsp;<em>a self-congratulating fullness of suprasubjective being<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our good is obvious to anyone who is \u201ceducated\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;We all love one another and despise the uneducated morons, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0058 We blather<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;in production of our subjective agreement<sub>1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we really free to choose<sub>1b<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, am I forgetting something<sub>1c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0059 There are privations in things and events<sub>2a<\/sub>, including speech-alone talk<sub>2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are privations in phantasms<sub>2b<\/sub>, losing the balance between judgment<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;and speech<sub>2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a diagram for social construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/07-reality.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/07-reality.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/07-reality.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/07-reality-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Figure 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What am I missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0056 Kanzelberger lays out the moral theodrama. 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