{"id":8403,"date":"2024-11-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T13:59:19","slug":"looking-at-daniel-houcks-book-2020-aquinas-original-sin-and-the-challenge-of-evolution-part-22-of-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8403","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Daniel Houck&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;Aquinas, Original Sin and the Challenge of Evolution&#8221; (Part 22 of 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0221 Funny, desire is&nbsp;<em>the only thing that postmodernists want to talk about<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why?&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Forcing others to confess their desires<\/em>constitutes&nbsp;<em>a form of bureaucratic control<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Libido Dominandi.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>To talk about desire<\/em>&nbsp;is to conjure phantasms<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;without sensations<sub>2a<\/sub>, or maybe, in search of sensations<sub>2a<\/sub>. The reactive body<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;becomes habituated to act out certain sensations and feelings<sub>2a<\/sub>, making the fantasy&nbsp;<em>what it ought to be<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0222 How do<em>&nbsp;post-modern academics<\/em>&nbsp;fixate on desire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44-4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0223 Well,&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;looks vaguely pornographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What better way than to stimulate the limbic system, than with a promise of sexual liberation&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and political control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, what year does America&#8217;s supreme court redefine pornography as &#8220;free speech&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is&nbsp;<em>a ruling that no one wants to talk about<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0224 Postmodernism defines&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Academic discussions<\/em>&nbsp;center on&nbsp;<em>confession<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>fantasy<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Confession is demanded even of the befuddled.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fantasy is also required.&nbsp;&nbsp;If I cannot fantasize my victimhood, then I must be a perpetrator.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask Clarence Thomas.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask Brett Kavanaugh.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Confession of one&#8217;s victimhood<\/em>&nbsp;is prized.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The rational intellect<\/em>&nbsp;is openly disregarded as&nbsp;<em>a co-conspirator in thought-crimes<\/em>&nbsp;or as&nbsp;<em>a self-imposed denial of the pain<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sensations and feelings<\/em>&nbsp;are salient when they enhance&nbsp;<em>the fantasy of victimhood<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The academic wants to know.&nbsp;&nbsp;What is your desire?&nbsp;&nbsp;What are you guilty of?&nbsp;&nbsp;What do you accuse others of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cupid&#8217;s arrows<\/em>&nbsp;carry&nbsp;<em>twisted barbs<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask Jacques Lacan.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask Michel Foucault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0225 Augustine comes up with &#8216;something&#8217; quite similar.&nbsp;&nbsp;He calls it &#8220;concupiscence&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The term translates literally into &#8220;the state of being with Cupid&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Cupid is&nbsp;<em>the passion child of Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;What better companion to have in party town?&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Cupid&#8217;s quiver<\/em>&nbsp;is full of&nbsp;<em>arrows of desire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Augustine claims that original sin passes from Adam to us (today) through the act of conception. Conception entails &#8220;free speech&#8221;, if you know&nbsp;<em>what I mean<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Procreation is entangled with concupiscence.&nbsp;&nbsp;The two (or is it three, considering the natural consequence?) cannot be separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Augustine provides&nbsp;<em>a mechanism for how Adam&#8217;s rebellion places the infant in the condition of original sin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0226&nbsp;<em>The infant<\/em>&nbsp;is subject to&nbsp;<em>the actuality portrayed in the above figure, postmodern fixation 3<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes,&nbsp;<em>the infant<\/em>&nbsp;must confess that his parent&#8217;s fantasies inform their reactive bodies, habituating them, so that their actions are never innocent.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The lack of innocence<\/em>&nbsp;transmits from parent to babe.&nbsp;&nbsp;The infant bears the guilt of &#8220;his&#8221; own conception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0227 Am I surprised that&nbsp;<em>the site of naming in postmodern fixation 3<\/em>&nbsp;coincides with&nbsp;<em>Augustine&#8217;s concupiscence?<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, not.&nbsp;&nbsp;After all,&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;associates to desire.&nbsp;&nbsp;Power demands that desire reveal itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;Only through confession and fantasy can desire be managed by experts.&nbsp;&nbsp;Postmodern academics are not &#8220;judgmental&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are managerial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0228 Postmodernism takes the dyadic actuality,&nbsp;<em>confession &amp; fantasy [informs and habituates] reactive body<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>, in directions that Augustine never anticipated.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The educated<\/em>&nbsp;can name their desires.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The uneducated brutes<\/em>&nbsp;cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do the educated know the spoken words appropriate to this or that combination of&nbsp;<em>perceptive soul [informing and habituating] reactive body?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0229 They have the information.&nbsp;&nbsp;They have created a cognitive framework from their fevered imaginations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The postmodern academic constructs&nbsp;<em>terms that apply to the contiguity between perceptive soul and reactive body<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Only&nbsp;<em>the educated<\/em>&nbsp;can label their phantasms, thereby honoring themselves as&nbsp;<em>star-filled perceptive souls, elevated above the mundane reactionaries who remain reticent to name their desires<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The reactionaries are full of fear.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are deplorable.&nbsp;&nbsp;They ought to be ground into dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0230&nbsp;<em>Disorientation<\/em>&nbsp;transubstantiates into&nbsp;<em>utopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Utopia represents&nbsp;<em>the trans-substantiation&nbsp;<\/em>of a dyadic element in judgment<em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<\/em>a full-fledged triadic structure.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here,&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;moves from&nbsp;<em>realness<\/em>&nbsp;(secondness) to&nbsp;<em>judging reality<\/em>&nbsp;(thirdness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, it remains in place as&nbsp;<em>an element of a larger judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;<em>a sick imitation of original justice<sub>2c<\/sub><\/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\/Slide45-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45-4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0231 Three hundred years after Saint Paul writes a letter to the Romans, Augustine formulates his mechanism for original sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thousand years after Saint Augustine writes of original sin, Thomas Aquinas formulates the concept of original justice, as the good that original sin fails to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight hundred years after Saint Thomas writes of original justice, these comments propose that&nbsp;<em>Augustine&#8217;s concept of concupiscence<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the substrate for a bureaucratic formulation that socially constructs a utopia, a judgment that malignantly parodies original justice<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>, coinciding with&nbsp;<em>the ministrations of a modern religion, Big Government (il)Liberalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Houck never gives us a clue as to&nbsp;<em>how horrifying our substitutes for original justice<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;can be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, how relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as if original sin cuts original justice down to&nbsp;<em>whatever it can name<\/em>&nbsp;<em>with speech-alone words,<\/em>&nbsp;then sears&nbsp;<em>this reduction<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>a flame of madness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0232 If the&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;<em>of original justice<\/em>&nbsp;is named, &#8220;desire&#8221;, then&nbsp;<em>those who construct the name<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>those who are indoctrinated into the expressions of the name<\/em>&nbsp;stand against&nbsp;<em>those who do not<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This judgment evokes an ideal, a utopia, where the believer apparently achieves&nbsp;<em>what is lost in Adam&#8217;s rebellion, the wholeness of commitment<sub>2c<\/sub>, the fruit of the tree of life<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within&nbsp;<em>this utopia<\/em>, there is&nbsp;<em>a stain that must be rooted out<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The uneducated<\/em>&nbsp;must be&nbsp;<em>purged<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So-called &#8220;liberalism&#8221; becomes&nbsp;<em>illiberal<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, no one can say that, without banishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the (il) is silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0233 Here is a picture of&nbsp;<em>a Big Government (il)Liberal postmodern academic utopia<\/em>, within its larger setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide46-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide46-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide46-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide46-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t be taken aback.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is only theoretical.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no&nbsp;<em>real-world academic<\/em>&nbsp;who idealizes to such an extent that&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;trans-substantiates into&nbsp;<em>a judgment that then takes the place of commitment<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0234 In the Story of the Fall, small details loom large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After God drives the man and the woman from the Garden of Eden, He places a cherubim, and a flaming sword that turns every direction, to guard the way back to the tree of life (Genesis 3:22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the utopia of postmodernism, the virtuous have&nbsp;<em>celestial perceptive souls<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;They apply&nbsp;<em>their swords of spoken names<\/em>.&nbsp;Their swords turn in all directions.&nbsp;&nbsp;They have&nbsp;<em>a label for every opponent<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;If&nbsp;<em>the uneducated person<\/em>&nbsp;is not&nbsp;<em>this<\/em>, then&nbsp;<em>the uneducated person<\/em>&nbsp;must be&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The utopians savor their fixation on&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In order to complete their vision, death must prevail over&nbsp;<em>the mundane reactionaries,<\/em>&nbsp;just like death prevailed over&nbsp;<em>the shamans who wanted to retain the old, timeless traditions<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cherubim holding flaming, swerving swords<\/em>&nbsp;stand in&nbsp;<em>the mirror of the world<sub>3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we see their reflections<sub>1a<\/sub>, we see ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0235 I guess, I got this section turned around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should be asking, &#8220;What does&nbsp;<em>original justice<\/em>&nbsp;tell me about&nbsp;<em>the consequences of the first singularity?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0221 Funny, desire is&nbsp;the only thing that postmodernists want to talk about.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why?&nbsp;&nbsp;Forcing others to confess their desiresconstitutes&nbsp;a form of bureaucratic control.&nbsp;&nbsp;Libido Dominandi.&nbsp;&nbsp;To talk about desire&nbsp;is to conjure phantasms2b&nbsp;without sensations2a, or maybe, in search of sensations2a. 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