PHIL-357 Lecture 15: Sickness unto Death L15
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Sin then is a lack of faith, a lack of not submitting the will to the higher power. Similar to james in the claim that morality is easier for the religious person who has. The corruption of the will (to act on lower nature) corrupts the knowledge. In pagan view sin involves wrongdoing but as a product of ignorance. In christianity sin is an act of will: one does wrong, but in not living in faith. The socratic definition of sin: sin is ignorance; if we knew what was right we would do it automatically. [126}: if a person does not do what is right the second he knows it is right, then knowledge would no longer be present. But what does the will think of knowledge: the will is dialectical and interacts with both nature and reason. The will may not act immediately, but in doing so the knowledge is obscured; nature/lower nature takes over and gains power.
