Religious Man as the Structural Source

Here are some thoughts on the philosophy of structuralism and post-structuralism:

The products of the human mind and its various cultural creations are the effects of human nature interacting with the environment. This is the biological superstructure, but not the structural source, from which human nature and culture can be analyzed. It is not a binary or dualistic superstructure, this is a superstructure derived from human nature seeking success in survival and reproduction, along with other human beings and other cultures, often in competition. This is not merely two antithetical structures fighting one another, this is all life seeking success. There is not a post-structuralist relativity of values here, human nature is founded in a determined reality seeking success in survival and reproduction, which affects all social and cultural behavior.

However, one could see a more dualistic interpretation coming from the structural source buried in the deepest part of human nature as the Spirit-Will activating life, which is then shaped by evolution. All life turns on the Spirit-Will activating life to evolve all the way to Godhood. This means analyzing or working with “religious man” as the structural source, followed by the superstructure of sociobiology. Although it is troublesome to define any part of this reality as evil, this does suggest a kind of structuralist duality, with evolution as sacred and devolution as profane, even if biological reality has life evolving up, down, and sideways at different times.