{"id":8551,"date":"2024-12-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2024-06-30T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:36:10","slug":"looking-at-brandon-wanlesss-article-2023-on-the-state-of-original-innocence-part-7-of-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8551","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Brandon Wanless&#8217;s Article (2023) &#8220;&#8230;on the State of Original Innocence&#8221; (Part 7 of 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0051 Finally, what is&nbsp;<em>the question that Wanless addresses?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the first section, the author specifies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article addresses the manner and degree in which the late Holy Father integrates&nbsp;<em>the theology of original justice<\/em>&nbsp;(as formulated by Aquinas) in his proposed&nbsp;<em>theology of the body<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This answer comes after noting that the first chapter of&nbsp;<em>Theology of the Body<\/em>&nbsp;contains no reference to Aquinas at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, the pope relies on &#8220;biblical teachings&#8221; 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yes&#8230; gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings me to the following comparison, in&nbsp;<em>the category of thirdness<\/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\/Slide14-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide14-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide14-8.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide14-8-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0056 The logics of thirdness include exclusion, alignment and complement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The sacrament of marriage<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;excludes&nbsp;<em>other normal contexts<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;that reject&nbsp;<em>the biblical teaching that the bonded male and female become one flesh<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sacrament<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;associates to the pope&#8217;s use of the word, &#8220;spirit&#8221;, as opposed to &#8220;flesh&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the same lines,&nbsp;<em>the blessed, honest and Christian intellect<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;excludes&nbsp;<em>normal contexts<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;that cannot recognize that&nbsp;<em>the gift<\/em>&nbsp;is one of&nbsp;<em>the triadic relations that humans adapt<\/em>&nbsp;<em>to<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0057 I wonder whether, if the now deceased pope purchased a copy of Mah&#8217;s e-book on the first singularity, he would be inclined to ask, &#8220;Can Aquinas&#8217;s theology of original justice be used to account for the noumenon, the thing itself, of human evolutionary history?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is a very good question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens when&nbsp;<em>a theology aiming to describe the conditions of the prelapsarian Adam<\/em>&nbsp;is applied to&nbsp;<em>the prelapsarian adamah, the ethnos, who cannot avail themselves to the explicit abstractions permitted by speech-alone talk, yet nevertheless evolve implicit abstractions that, miraculously, cohere to Aquinas&#8217;s proposal of original justice?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0058 In terms of poverty, even the poor within civilization are wealthier and more powerful (in terms of money and control) than the wealthiest and most powerful persons in&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider paleolithic burials in Europe, where elaborate grave goods adorn the corpse of what?&#8230; a child?&#8230; a person who suffered immensely from some ailment?&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0059 In terms of the joy of living,&nbsp;<em>no civilized simulacra<\/em>&nbsp;can manufacture&nbsp;<em>a joy of living<\/em>&nbsp;comparable to&nbsp;<em>the ethnos<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember, the ethnos practice hand-talk and hand-speech talk.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, when someone talks, others don&#8217;t just listen, they watch and witness.&nbsp;&nbsp;At first, hominins evolve to be productive and have fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, hominins evolve to be more than productive and to have more than fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;All these adaptations further actualize the potential of&nbsp;<em>the ethos of the gift<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0060 After the first singularity,&nbsp;<em>a narod<\/em>&nbsp;may come close to&nbsp;<em>the way of being of the ethnos,<\/em>&nbsp;with their festivals and their funerals, their work-alongs and their sing-alongs, and their banter and their gossip.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, once an intellectual steps on stage and tries to explain why the narod, even though apparently happy, are so poor, the path is set to generate a people, who follow the laws, who build a civilization, who cooperate even while being sheared by rapacious authorities, and who are finally harvested like the sheep that they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0061 Biblical teaching intimates that&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;is not the same as&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pattern precisely matches Dugin&#8217;s political theological distinction between narod and ethnos.&nbsp;&nbsp;A fundamental transition has taken place.&nbsp;&nbsp;The cruelty, radicalness and monumentality of the transition manifests in time.&nbsp;&nbsp;The explicit abstractions of -ismists turn traditional word meanings into technical exercises and then into parodies of&nbsp;<em>what they used to signify<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0051 Finally, what is&nbsp;the question that Wanless addresses? 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