Tuesday, October 14, 2014
How Nietzsche could have retained God
Philosophy since Nietzsche has often
centered on the subject and not the object, finding the object only
the subjective fixing of one subject by another subject. That was
convenient for describing a relativity of values and morals.
Nietzsche, rightly, said that Being
will have to be conceived as the sensation which is no longer based
on anything quite devoid of sensation. But then since God had been
defined as devoid of sensation, Nietzsche rejected God. If Nietzsche
had understood Godhood as a material/supermaterial object, or
objects that we evolve to become in the material world, which had
been previously, traditionally, but partially, seen as the
Inward God or the Father Within, then Nietzsche might have been able
to retain God transformed in the Outward Godhood we can evolve to
become, if we are successful in
survival and evolution---first glimpsed as the Inward God.
Philosophical naturalism for me, which
is inherent in theological materialism, doesn't think only in terms
of subjective relativity, human nature is determined in many ways,
and other parts of nature are as well, and their definition doesn't
strictly depend on who is doing the defining. We see as much of
reality as our level of consciousness can see.
Getting back to the object means moving
away from subjective definition of objects. Human nature and Godhood
are seen as objects in reality, with many, although not all
determined features, which are simply not defined as only relative to
the subject viewing them.
This describes a living evolving object Godhood. In getting back to
the real object and moving away from the relative subject we find
real Godhood. We don't require the aristocratic radicalism of
Nietzsche's solution---which involved a goalless and relative will-to-power---an evolving conservatism will aid in our evolution.
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