{"id":8324,"date":"2024-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T13:15:05","slug":"looking-at-daniel-houcks-book-2020-aquinas-original-sin-and-the-challenge-of-evolution-part-3-of-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Daniel Houck&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;Aquinas, Original Sin and the Challenge of Evolution&#8221; (Part 3 of 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0018 When Aquinas addresses original justice, he follows Augustine in jumbling together the two creation movements in Genesis.&nbsp;&nbsp;The prelapsarian Adam and Eve are created as images of God.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0019 What does Houck say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First,&nbsp;<em>original justice<\/em>&nbsp;is natural.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well, it is not merely natural.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is &#8220;<em>preternatural<\/em>&#8220;.&nbsp;&nbsp;In other words, it is not like the primal justice of the animals.&nbsp;&nbsp;One animal may harm another in the pursuit of its own good.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this, nature appears to be cruel, heartless and mechanistic.&nbsp;&nbsp;We counter this reality with charity, empathy and cleverness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature is full of goods and evils.&nbsp;&nbsp;An evil is a privation of a good.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each species appears designed to protect against certain evils.&nbsp;&nbsp;Turtles have shells to hide in.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each species is adapted to exploit some natural advantage (or good).&nbsp;&nbsp;Some turtles love to eat veggies.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are not so different than the turtle in this regard.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our bodies are designed to avoid certain dangers and seek certain opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;These active designs are felt in our bones.&nbsp;&nbsp;They move our flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They guide our senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0020&nbsp;<em>A movement of the sensate soul<\/em>&nbsp;asks, in innocence, &#8220;Do I feel that I should avoid&nbsp;<em>what I am sensing<\/em>&nbsp;or do I feel like I should seek&nbsp;<em>what I am sensing?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The activity of the body [substantiates] the sensate soul<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our bodies sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our sensate soul feels.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, the contiguity between them converts the operations of the five senses (along with internal proprioceptors) into qualia or feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this is natural, or maybe, a little more (<em>preter<\/em>) than&nbsp;<em>natural<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Once feelings are triggered in the sensate soul,&nbsp;<em>the active body<\/em>&nbsp;serves as&nbsp;<em>a sign-vehicle<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The active body<\/em>&nbsp;stands for&nbsp;<em>something other than itself<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The active body<\/em>&nbsp;signifies&nbsp;<em>what the sensate soul feels<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide04-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide04-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide04-5.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide04-5-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0021 Second, and in apparent contradiction,&nbsp;<em>original justice<\/em>&nbsp;is supernatural.&nbsp;&nbsp;It takes us beyond the preternatural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it mean for me to say, &#8220;Nature is scarce, horrifying and petty, leading me to sense futility, danger and nastiness.&nbsp;&nbsp;I want to avoid the privation of goods.&nbsp;&nbsp;At the same time, nature is bountiful, beautiful and awesome, inspiring me to sense thanksgiving, admiration and wonder.&nbsp;&nbsp;I seek goodness.&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0022 The secondary causality of&nbsp;<em>active body [substance] sensate soul<\/em>&nbsp;addresses&nbsp;<em>the causal nexus between our five senses and our immediate feelings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The primary causality of original justice (or something like original justice)<\/em>&nbsp;places&nbsp;<em>the actuality of<\/em>&nbsp;<em>our sensations and feelings<\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>a category-based nested form<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our ancestors adapt to&nbsp;<em>the fact that our world presents itself as things and events<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;within normal contexts<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and potentials<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our active bodies register things and events<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;(including communicative gestures and words).&nbsp;&nbsp;Our sensate souls conjure an appropriate, immediate, normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, not surprisingly, this immediate normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;is&#8230; well&#8230; not necessarily&nbsp;<em>what a scientist would have them be<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;(But, there is a remedy that may please the scientist.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0023 For example, before modern times, many people think that salamanders come from fire.&nbsp;&nbsp;They notice a pattern.&nbsp;&nbsp;When a log is thrown into a fire, sometimes a salamander runs out.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is the actuality<sub>2<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, in the normal context of the four elements<sub>3<\/sub>, the actuality of the salamander<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;emerges from the potential of one of the four elements, fire<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0024 So, what do the four elements do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They provide a way to formulate (or explicitly symbolize) the normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;that accompany an actuality<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0025 Aristotle proposes his four causes as an alternative to the four elements.&nbsp;&nbsp;They work in the same manner, but they are far superior in elucidating the potential<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;of sensations and feelings<sub>2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is how that looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide05-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide05-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide05-5.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide05-5-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0026 What do Aristotle&#8217;s four causes do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To start, if one encounters a thing<sub>2<\/sub>, that thing<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;may be regarded as a hylomorphe, composed of two contiguous real elements, matter and form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matter is&nbsp;<em>what our active bodies sense<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the thing is not present, then we cannot use our five senses to detect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Form is&nbsp;<em>what our sensate souls feel<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sensate soul notices all the clues to form, such as shape, color, odor and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;In doing so, the sensate soul raises some questions, &#8220;Do I avoid?&nbsp;&nbsp;Do I approach?&nbsp;&nbsp;Do I safely ignore?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0027 Next, Aristotle&#8217;s four causes allows one to synthesize&nbsp;<em>what must be true for this actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<em>matter, a physical aspect,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>being, a relational aspect<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Matter and being are two poles of a continuum.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Material causes<\/em>&nbsp;link matter and being to form.&nbsp;&nbsp;The contiguity, labeled, &#8220;substance&#8221;, can be interpreted in a myriad of material ways.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, scientists love to fill this contiguity with the machinations of various neurons and glands and receptors and inhibitors and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, in the Arisotelian paradigm, a &#8220;substance&#8221; tends to eliminate contradictions to allow the two real elements, active body and sensate soul, to remain contiguous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thing<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;has its own operations, which can be observed with our senses.&nbsp;&nbsp;These processes exhibit certain patterns, our senses trigger our feelings, and then we try to situate sensations and feelings<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Instrumental causes&nbsp;<\/em>follow the logic of secondness, the laws of contradiction and non-contradiction.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Instrumental causes<\/em>&nbsp;bring the actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;into relation with its potential<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;has a purpose, a teleology, and an end.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Final causality<\/em>&nbsp;entangles normal context<sub>3<\/sub>, actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;With final causes, we begin to see the big picture.&nbsp;&nbsp;We begin to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<em>a formal design<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This design has&nbsp;<em>formal requirements<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If these requirements are not met, then the good suffers a privation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question of evil, arises when a potential<sub>1<\/sub>, a good, is not fulfilled as an actuality<sub>2<\/sub>, within its normal context<sub>3<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;A common metaphor for sin is &#8220;missing the mark&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>archery<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The actuality<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>arrow [strikes] target<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The potential<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>accuracy<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sin is a more than a failure of accuracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a failure to achieve God&#8217;s design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0028&nbsp;<em>Aristotle&#8217;s four causes<\/em>&nbsp;are one way to figure out&nbsp;<em>what is true about an actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0029 Now, I propose an intrepid question and ask, &#8220;If I apply Aristotle&#8217;s four causes to the actuality<sub>2a<\/sub>,&nbsp;<em>active body [substance] sensate soul<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>, as if it is&nbsp;<em>matter [substance] form,<\/em>&nbsp;what type of understanding could I achieve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, could I generate an understanding that would make a scientist smile?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when I apply Aristotle&#8217;s causes again, as if I am refining&nbsp;<em>the actuality of sensations and feelings<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>a content-level nested form,&nbsp;<\/em>with&nbsp;<em>an appreciation of scientific inquiry<\/em>&nbsp;in mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0030 I start with the hylomorphe,&nbsp;<em>active body [substance] sensate soul<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;That goes into a content-level actuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, I turn to Aristotle&#8217;s four causes to weave a normal context<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;and potential<sub>1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The material cause<\/em>&nbsp;concerns&nbsp;<em>the contiguity between the active body and sensate soul<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I know that the active body senses itself and its surroundings.&nbsp;&nbsp;I know that the sensate soul expresses corresponding qualia.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, I ask the questions, &#8220;If my active body encounters &#8216;something&#8217;, then what am I encountering?&nbsp;&nbsp;What is it supposed to be?&nbsp;&nbsp;Should I fear, approach or safely ignore?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This implies that the hylomorphe may be understood as a foundation for a nested form for human psychology.&nbsp;&nbsp;And clinical psychology.&nbsp;&nbsp;And anatomy and physiology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Indeed, nested forms can be constructed for almost any science studying animals, particularly mammals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;<em>material causality<\/em>&nbsp;tells me that humans are animals.&nbsp;&nbsp;Animals adapt to their niche.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The niche<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the potential of something independent of the adapting species<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>the environment of evolutionary adaptation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0031 The instrumental cause connects&nbsp;<em>whatever engages sensations and feelings<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;to a potential<sub>1a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the original nested form stands, the potential is&nbsp;<em>the image of God<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;What do images require?&nbsp;&nbsp;Interpretation?&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, how do I interpret?&nbsp;&nbsp;I need&nbsp;<em>a framework in which interpretation is possible<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the modern mind, the more scientific the interpretation, the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>the normal context of the Creation Story<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>, God is&nbsp;<em>the One who Signifies<\/em>, or Speaks, and, in response, the earth brings forth.&nbsp;<em>This source of signification<\/em>&nbsp;is way beyond speech, even though the Creation Story makes it seem like God speaks like&nbsp;<em>a person in our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, human evolution starts before language.&nbsp;&nbsp;Language evolves in&nbsp;<em>the milieu of hand talk<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, if God is talking to nature at this time, He gives His commands in manual-brachial gestures, hand talk, and the earth sees what God intends and responds to His signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay,&nbsp;<em>instrumental causality<\/em>&nbsp;suggests that&nbsp;<em>God&#8217;s handiwork involves signs<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That tells me that humans are&nbsp;<em>semiotic animals<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further discussion of this claim, consider&nbsp;<em>Looking at John Deely&#8217;s 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