The_Sage wrote:
>
> Since Adam had no knowledge of wrongdoing, there is no guilt.
>
Since he got that knowledge, there is now.
>
> >We are responsible and guilty, unlike animals, because we have our
> >reflective consciousness.
>
> We can only be guilty because of reprehensible behaviors.
>
But the expression "reprehensible behavior" makes sense only to us,
since we have that
reflective consciousness. Besides, as Zygmunt Bauman says in his work
Postmodern Ethics: 'The moral self is a self always tormented by the
suspicion that it is not moral enough'. It is the immoral one who does
not feel guilt.
>
> >We are capable of saying "I", we are able to
> >look at ourselves and see our very ****dness before God. Animals
> >aren't.
>
> Neither was Adam.
>
He was, after he got conscious, i.e. when he became human. That is the
price for it.
>
> And therein lies the whole point -- Adam had no knowledge of wrong, so
Adam had
> no way of knowing that partaking of the Tree of Knowledge was wrong.
Adam had no
> way of knowing if what he did was evil, therefore Adam could not be
found
> guilty, and Adam had no way of knowing that obeying God was good because
Adam
> had no knowledge of good.
>
But we have that knowledge, hence we have got expelled from the
Paradise.
--
risto
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