Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Where does no duality between the universal and particular lead?
This philosophical argument can be
resolved by understanding that in a secondary way human nature is
universal and works along with particular individuals and groups, and
in a primary religious way a universally determined material
Will-Spirit-To-Godhood activates within the life of particular
individuals and groups. I see no real duality necessary in this structure.
This seems to cancel out the dualities of eastern religions, Plato,
much of the Enlightenment, on up to Leo Strauss, as well as many of
the postmoderns.
The universal is also concrete,
particular, and material, and even Godhood is concretely material/
supermaterial, arrived at through natural evolution, helped along by
reason. Evolution defines the good, beautiful, and true as
hierarchical culminating in Godhood. This calls us more to action
than ascetic retirement. The religious, philosophical, cultural and
political question then becomes, how do we best evolve in the world
toward Godhood? For example, the ethnopluralism hypothesis stems from
this consideration.
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