It occurred to me while reading “Young
Nietzsche” by Carl Pletsch, that the Spirit-Will, or Tirips, in the religious
philosophy of the theological materialism can be compared to the Greek chorus as
Nietzsche defined it.
The chorus (Tirips) is life or
humanity in its undifferentiated state, “behind all
civilization.” We, as spectators derive metaphysical comfort from
identifying with the chorus-Tirips, a comfort of Dionysian
wisdom, for the Greeks, to compensate for the difficult pain of
everyday life.
But unlike the Greek satyr chorus with its
more anarchic, chaotic, Dionysian dynamic, Tirips is
identified as going somewhere, it is fully defined as the material activating Will-To-Godhood within all life, activating all life to evolve to Godhood,
never separated from life, and then shaped by natural evolution.
This offers more metaphysical comfort to our world than the Greek chorus, while being grounded in the flow of material (and supermaterial) life. Tirips also counters the
relativism of values and morals in Nietzsche and his many followers.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment