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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