However, the official list of the seven deadly sins was established during the 6th century A.D. when some early catalogs of sins appeared, signposts to a virtuous life.
The effort to define the concept of sin has already taken place since the first century A.D. Many centuries afterwards, under the shelter of the recently established Christian dictum, the sin is identified with the concept of failing: to commit a sin means to fail, to fail following God's path. Thus, we conclude that the awareness and the acknowledgment of the sin constitute, maybe, the only way to achieve the desired self-awareness. Going back to the distant past we encounter the dictum of the Delphi's oracle: «Self-awareness signifies the knowledge of the divine and the knowledge of the divine signifies the awareness of the sin».
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Questions like: «What does the sin constitute? Which internal or external code defines it? Is there a scale to measure it? » have been preoccupying human beings for centuries, formatting the "Ethic" of each era. Vatican's recent decision to modernize the concept of the seven deadly sins so that they correspond to the contemporary social reality and capture the essence of contemporary ethic caused the comeback of the subject matter of sin in the discussions regarding civilization.Įven though we justify the growing presence of sin in our conscience, it is always a fact that the discussion concerning this subject matter, in a matter of minutes or even seconds, turns into a discussion over sin's causes, its inner logic, the nature of its mechanisms, even its possible practices. Left: Vito Acconci, Seedbed, 1974 (Courtesy of the Sonnabend Gallery N.Y) | Right: Ron Mueck, Big Man, 2000
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