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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