Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Unconcealedness As An Object


A key idea for me is to define “truth” as “unconcealedness,” as the Greeks supposedly did, and as Heidegger did after them, but then go on from there and define unconcealedness as an object, not an idea or math symbol.

This grounds theological materialism, for example, in defining Supreme Truth as the Supreme Object or Objects which is/are Godhood. Truth this way is seen as secondary to the object, truth only defines or denotates the object. Why worship the definition of the object and not the object? Or why worship a half evolved object for that matter?

The statement “a circle is round” is a class of truth but it should not be made a God. First is the object, not the sound or word that regards the object, or comes from the object.

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