Monday, February 28, 2011
All Is Existence And Essence Within
Essence (Spirit, Will To Godhood) does not give the thing its content and substance, existence (the material being, body, the object) gives the thing its content and substance. Essence activates existence, but essence is a supermaterial extension and substance of material life and existence, it is not non-material. All is existence.
Existence does not exist only in the mind, as Kant seems to suggest, existence is the real thing, which the Scholastics seemed to confirm.
Essence is not the only "real" actuality of things, as St Thomas seems to suggest, essence is the supermaterial activating force of material and supermaterial existence---essence is not more actual than existence.
Essence is part of existence although not identical with existence because existence can be material and essence is supermaterial, as Godhood is.
Existence does not derive from essence, as St Thomas seems to suggest, existence and essence are always together, one activating the other, at various levels of evolution, all the way to Godhood, the highest evolution.
The Being of Godhood is only different from the being of man in the level of evolution. Essence and existence are always together as things evolve all the way to Godhood.
This seems to mean that Dasein, or us being here in the world, is not omitted from this definition of being or Being. The only difference is in levels of evolution.
It is not “time” that is the unity which pervades the various Beings and beings, it is evolution. Time is only a secondary definition of real things evolving in the cosmos.
I take the products of thought to be real things, something like objectivism and Scholasticism (see "Heidegger and Aquinas”, by Caputo). Real things enter the mind and mingle with what is in the mind and memory and what is a priori in the body (eg. the Spirit or Will). What we see has to do with what is seen as well as what is is our minds and memory. What we see is the product of the actual things our senses see.
Existence never stands outside of its causes—existence is always connected to essence. Essence does not cause existence, essence activates existence always from within existence.
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