Tuesday, May 26, 2009

partiality

Judgment is not partiality.

Judgment (as pure judgment) is a calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all. (bible dictionary - I don't know how good of a definition this is, but it's the best I found so far)

Partiality is the act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained.

Partiality is without God. Our measuring stick is relative, moving and inabsolute.

Pure Judgment is absolute and cannot derive from human cognition. It must be separate, holy and unalterable. (supernatural - working through human cognition.)

More on Kant later. it's much too early.

Furthermore, partiality is favor. We ought not act from or upon favor. Under God we are all undeserving. It is Grace that pushes partiality out of the equation and it is Grace which ought to push against our own relative cognition. How we deliver it is necessarily tied to how we receive it.

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