{"id":9443,"date":"2025-08-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:22:35","slug":"looking-at-slavoj-zizeks-book-2024-christian-atheism-part-16-of-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9443","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Slavoj Zizek&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Christian Atheism&#8221; (Part 16 of 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0168 One of the benefits of chapter two, establishing that Lacan is not a Buddhist, is the appearance of&nbsp;<em>the three-level interscope<\/em>&nbsp;in this examination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two e-works may assist in appreciating the interscope:&nbsp;<em>A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both are available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0169 If I step back and summarize, then the following diagram captures many of my associations.&nbsp;&nbsp;The figure contains&nbsp;<em>a perspective-level category-based nested form<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>a virtual nested form in the category of secondness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide055.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide055.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide055.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide055-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as this examiner is concerned, the perspective level is&nbsp;<em>what Zizek configures<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The perspective level is full of symbols (that is, labels that are explicit abstractions).&nbsp;&nbsp;So, I purloin Lacan&#8217;s term, &#8220;symbolic&#8221;, as an additional banner for the perspective level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, Christ<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;can be excluded by a Relativist One<sub>3c<\/sub>, who stands outside the jurisdictions found on the situation and content levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;When that happens, the perspective-level potential changes from &#8216;truth and synthesis&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;to &#8216;synthetic truth&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation level receives Lacan&#8217;s term, &#8220;real&#8221; for an additional banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The content level employs Lacan&#8217;s term, &#8220;imaginary&#8221; for an additional banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0170 Chapter three turns to quantum mechanics.&nbsp;&nbsp;Quantum mechanics offers scientific proposals about&nbsp;<em>what is going on when Newtonian mechanics does not provide good models<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Quantum mechanics applies to molecules, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons and other subatomic particles.&nbsp;&nbsp;For one difference, energy is no longer continuous.&nbsp;&nbsp;It gets quantized.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, the quantized energy is embodied by&nbsp;<em>a tiny thing that is both particle and wave<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0171 For example, in a carbon atom, the nucleus (consisting of 6 positively charged protons and 6 noncharged neutrons) behaves mostly like a particle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>A single positively-charged tiny pin-sized thing<\/em>&nbsp;stands in&nbsp;<em>the center of the atom<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because mass relates to energy and energy relates to wavelength, the nucleus is small because bigger mass means shorter wavelengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;<em>lighter, negatively charged electrons<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;orbit&#8221; the carbon nucleus as&nbsp;<em>standing waves<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Electron orbits are&nbsp;<em>three-dimensional standing waves,<\/em>&nbsp;that can be occupied by two electrons, because each electron has a magnetic moment, and these magnetic moments may couple like a pair of bar magnets. &#8220;Spin up&#8221; couples with &#8220;spin down&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0172 Zizek locates quantum mechanics in a shift between appearance (a measurement of a particle or wave, depending on the apparatus) and the natural &#8211; unmeasured &#8211; habitus of the nanoscopic thing itself (which gets reduced to either a particle or a wave by our scientific measurements).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0173 I ask, &#8220;Does&nbsp;<em>appearance or measurement<\/em>&nbsp;(in the reality of science) call to mind the term, &#8216;materialism&#8217;, even though&nbsp;<em>the data<\/em>&nbsp;supports&nbsp;<em>highly mathematical constructs of wave forms<\/em>&nbsp;that call to mind the term, &#8216;idealism&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many chemists imagine that&nbsp;<em>the wave-functions of the second energy level for carbon<\/em>&nbsp;are more real than the first natural-philosophical abstraction of&nbsp;<em>the thing itself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide056.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide056.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide056.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide056-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0174 Yes,&nbsp;<em>the modern chemist<\/em>&nbsp;triumphally replaces&nbsp;<em>the noumenon<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>a model based on its phenomena<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A mathematical model of the electron in an orbital<\/em>&nbsp;stands for&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>the chemist&#8217;s judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;0175 Zizek argues that&nbsp;<em>a correct reading of quantum mechanics<\/em>&nbsp;opens the way to &#8220;materialism&#8221;, that is, &#8220;a doctrine of the material&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, &#8216;something&#8217; is out of kilter with quantum mechanics, because&nbsp;<em>the model, which is imaginary,<\/em>&nbsp;is regarded as more relevant to inquiry than&nbsp;<em>the thing itself,<\/em>&nbsp;which is real, because&nbsp;<em>the habitus of these tiny particle\/waves<\/em>&nbsp;ends up getting annihilated by&nbsp;<em>our real scientific measuring apparatuses<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is like the heroic investigator who proclaims, &#8220;In order to ascertain&nbsp;<em>the reality of the situation,<\/em>&nbsp;we had to destroy&nbsp;<em>the situation itself<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0176 Happily, for me, but not in the Buddhist sense of the word, Zizek never encountered the Peirce-based description of science, formulated in&nbsp;<em>Comments on Jacques Maritain&#8217;s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy<\/em>&nbsp;(by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).&nbsp;&nbsp;The Positivist&#8217;s judgment tells me something about&nbsp;<em>models&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>things themselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A judgment is a triadic relation consisting of three elements:&nbsp;<em>relation,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;and<em>&nbsp;what ought to be<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, a well-trained philosopher will gag on these labels.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, this concerns science, so&nbsp;<em>the three elements<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>empty slots that are filled in through the synthetic process of association and implication,<\/em>&nbsp;which is precisely how Zizek (as a wildly successful Lacanian psychoanalyst) operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When all three elements are filled in and assigned a unique category, the judgment becomes actionable.&nbsp;&nbsp;The actionable judgment unfolds, according to the categorical assignments, into a category-based nested form where thirdness brings secondness into relation with firstness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0177 Here is a picture of the Positivist&#8217;s judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide057.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide057.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide057.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide057-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0178 A positivist intellect (<em>relation,<\/em>&nbsp;thirdness) brings the empirio-schematic judgment (<em>what ought to be,<\/em>&nbsp;secondness) into relation with the dyad, {the thing itself [cannot be objectified as] its observable and measurable facets} (<em>what is,<\/em>firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note how each element is assigned to one of Peirce&#8217;s categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0179&nbsp;<em>The positivist intellect<\/em>&nbsp;has a rule.&nbsp;&nbsp;Metaphysics is not allowed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since natural philosophy includes both physics (material and instrumental causations) and metaphysics (formal and final causations), natural philosophy is excluded.&nbsp;&nbsp;That is&nbsp;<em>what normal contexts do<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;They exclude, complement and align with other normal contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0180&nbsp;<em>The empirio-schematic judgment<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>a triadic relation that is imbued with secondness<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;What does that imply?&nbsp;&nbsp;A judgment is considered to be actual?&nbsp;&nbsp;A specialized disciplinary language (<em>relation,<\/em>&nbsp;thirdness) brings mathematical and mechanical models (<em>what ought to be,<\/em>&nbsp;secondness) into relation with observations and measurements of phenomena (<em>what is,<\/em>&nbsp;firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, that seems totally actual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0181 Finally, the dyad, {a noumenon [cannot be objectified as] its phenomena}, does not contain two real elements, it only contains&nbsp;<em>one thing that is considered from two points of view<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A theologian speaks of&nbsp;<em>the thing itself<\/em>&nbsp;being constituted as&nbsp;<em>matter and form<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Matter and form are distinct real elements.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, {matter [substance] form} belongs to secondness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, a scientist speaks of&nbsp;<em>phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>the foundation for scientific inquiry<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>the observable and measurable facets of a noumenon<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But,&nbsp;<em>phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;cannot objectify&nbsp;<em>their noumenon<\/em>, even though both terms label&nbsp;<em>the same entity<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The observable and measurable facets of an entity<\/em>&nbsp;cannot objectify&nbsp;<em>the thing itself<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What is<\/em>&nbsp;of the Positivist&#8217;s judgment is popularly labeled, &#8220;Kant&#8217;s slogan&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the theologian,&nbsp;<em>the matter and the form of the noumenon<\/em>&nbsp;are distinct, real elements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the scientist,&nbsp;<em>the thing itself<\/em>&nbsp;is irrelevant for&nbsp;<em>building models<\/em>. Only&nbsp;<em>its phenomena<\/em>&nbsp;are relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0182&nbsp;<em>An actionable judgment<\/em>&nbsp;unfolds on&nbsp;<em>the basis of its categorical assignments<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a picture of the resulting nested form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide058.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide058.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide058.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide058-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The normal context of the positivist intellect<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;brings&nbsp;<em>the actuality of the empirio-schematic judgment<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into relation with&nbsp;<em>the possibility that &#8216;a noumenon [cannot be objectified as] its phenomena&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0168 One of the benefits of chapter two, establishing that Lacan is not a Buddhist, is the appearance of&nbsp;the three-level interscope&nbsp;in this examination.&nbsp; 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