RE: [split] Are Questions About God Important?
December 4, 2023 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2023 at 10:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 4, 2023 at 8:47 am)Belacqua Wrote: I learned this approach from Dante, because it's the standard Catholic view. Sin, for Dante, is not the breaking of arbitrary laws, but a stubborn refusal to pursue our proper ends. His views translate easily into modern language, where instead of sin we would talk about unhealthy obsessions, addictions, or neuroses. But even if we differ from Dante considerably in what we consider the aims to be, the general framework still makes sense to me.
There's not likely to be much daylight between catholic proper ends™ and arbitrary laws.
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