It is well to be aware of paradoxes that necessarily attend any attempt to narrate the origins of the Law.
The Judeo-Christian myth of the fall succumbs to precisely these paradoxes,
as Kant analyses: if Adam and Eve were purely innocent, how could they have been tempted?; if their temptation was wholly the fault of the tempter, why then has God punished humans with the weight of original sin?;
but if Adam and Eve were not purely innocent when the snake lured them, in what sense was this a fall at all?
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