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Eve and the Serpent: A Rational Choice to Err

机译:夏娃与蛇:错误的理性选择

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In dealing with inexplicable disaster, like the untimely death of a child in a hospital, we increasingly turn to the justice system for accountability and retribution. While seemingly sensible, criminalizing human error has a range of negative consequences. But it does offer “good” narratives of failure as the result of human fault—even at the cost of guilt. Such narratives allow us to pinpoint a cause: people made a rational choice to err and should be punished. This allows us to imagine ourselves in control over random, meaningless events. This paper traces Judeo–Christian roots of such regulative ideals in Western moral thinking, by examining the Genesis account of Eve and the Serpent, and St. Augustine’s interpretation of it.
机译:在处理莫名其妙的灾难时,例如孩子在医院过早死亡,我们越来越多地诉诸司法系统来追究责任和作出报应。虽然看似明智,但将人为错误定为刑事犯罪会带来一系列负面后果。但是它确实提供了由于人为过失而导致的“良好”的失败叙述,即使是以罪恶感为代价。这种叙述使我们能够查明原因:人们做出了错误选择的理性选择,应该受到惩罚。这使我们能够想象自己可以控制随机的,毫无意义的事件。本文通过考察《夏娃与蛇》的创世记以及圣奥古斯丁对其的解释,追溯了犹太人-基督教在西方道德思想中这种管制理想的根源。

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