Thursday, March 31, 2011

Contra Husserl and Heidegger


Taking the leap, rejecting those who deny an objective Being-In-Itself

I am about to take the leap and reject Husserl's and Heidegger's conception (and phenomenology) which seems to deny the whole idea of objective being-in-itself (“Heidegger and Aquinas,” by Caputo) and so rejects realism. These seem to be attempts to define Being only through the subject which understands Being.

No wonder that solipsism rears it's selfish head in philosophy, which seems to me to be a false entrapment of the ego in itself. I find the world real, the Spirit-Will real, and Godhood real, as actual existing objects. Being and being-to-Be have material and supermaterial substance as objects.

I am also about to reject Heidegger's definition of Being as time. Profound as this philosopher was, this seems to be a rejection of the actual object in favor of a definition of certain moving aspects of the behavior of objects. Time the definition is not Being the object.

Likewise Plato's Forms are not Being, forms secondarily define Being. In the old paradox, does unity define being or is unity beyond being? I say the form or the thought of unity is only that, a thought in the mind-brain of being or Being, and unity is not a real object. Unity is only part of being as the mind-brain is only part of the body. Total unity, or Absolute Unity would happen with Godhood attained at the zenith of material evolution (with supermaterialism). That is, Godhood's mind knows, but only knows within the united Body of Godhood.

Now if philosophy wants to try to define this real world just described in epistemological detail it is welcome to do so. But I think Being has to be rescued from such things as Heidegger's definition of Being as the history only of Being. Being and being are more than any kind of definition of Being.

Is this “faith” I am applying in defining reality, the leap of faith?  Evolutionary Christianity is a religion after all, a religion with a kind of  idealistic materialism (theological materialism). But an idealism grounded in the projected goal of an evolving object with immanent and transcendent real substance.

I am beholden to no academy or Church for this “heresy” which allows me more freedom than most---some would say perhaps too much freedom. Is my perspective really “poetry” or does it move outside of philosophy? Like a pre-philosopher I see no difference between existence and Being and I see no separation between essence an existence. Essence is the Spirit-Will within the existing real object being, and never outside of it.

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