Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Getting back to nature in the mind-world of religion
If we define intuition the way Kant
did, “to be aware through the senses,” then intuition might be at
least as good at describing the world as abstract thought, which
often seems to leave the senses behind. Abstract thought can become
estranged from nature and from real life; religion and philosophy
have often done this. Thought only through thought, or rationalism,
is in any case usually disguising the natural senses, a living will-to-power behind
abstractions.
Becoming is more than categories of
logic, becoming is natural evolution taking place. The purpose of
itself of life exists within nature, and the purpose of nature is not to
confirm our abstractions, but to confirm itself, its evolution.
Nature is not a form created by an idea, ideas are the form created
by nature, nature does not derive from an idea, ideas derive from
nature. Nature is or should be the real mind's world. Hegel said that
the highest absolute is mind, but the absolute is more accurately
seen as a supreme natural body-with-mind at the zenith of material or
supermaterial evolution.
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