Saturday, May 04, 2013
Why Theological Materialism?
It seems to me that phenomenologists,
like Husserl and Heidegger, are a modern extension of Aquinas, but
they bring in far more doubt about a priori reasoning and new doubt
about empiricism as being unable to find the whole truth. They also
tend toward individualism in thinking that the real, at least what we
can see of the real, is reduced to the what the individual-self can
see, which seems too reduced from the sociobiological perspective which I
try to apply in seeing what is real.
I don't think that historicism is the
answer either, that is, the study of history as the prime tool for defining
humanity, I think sociobiology is a better tool. But I would
agree with those who think that our questions still exceed the powers
of the human mind. Yet I do think these questions may be answered
with the further evolution of our intelligence.
I believe in the Enlightenment, the
miracle of science, and as I have indicated I especially treasure
the new/old science of sociobiology, and such exponents of it as
Raymond Cattell and E. O. Wilson. Even so, empiricism and reason do
not do it all for me as they tend to do for Cattell and Wilson who do not seem to value intellectual
intuition and faith enough to fit my experience of the world.
Specialization in various fields has presented the single empirical
tree in all its detail but not much of the phenomenal forest.
But I have faith in science and
reason that they will one day explain the still mysterious
activations of life, such as the inward activation of material life
by the material Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, with the divine goal of evolving to Godhood, while being shaped by
outside evolution.
What philosophy could this define?
I call it theological materialism, a religious philosophy, a philosophical sociobiology, which
includes old religion in new science as in the Twofold Path.
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