Saturday, June 18, 2016
How we can tame animal man and civilize the beast?
Nietzsche implied that we should not
tame animal man, or we should accept that only power tames man.
Traditional religion said we need to tame the animal so that we may
look inward to God or the Father, which then means (at least for ascetics) that we will not
really care about material life because God is non-material in any
case. Capitalism said we should tame the animal in a direction
related to becoming rich materially. Communism said we should tame
the animal so that we may all become equal. Science said we should
tame the animal so that we may all become rational and empirical.
Philosophy came up with its own schemes for taming the animal,
combining rationalism, irrationalism, science, religion, freedom,
determinism, with much blinding intellectual complication.
We can't really know where we are going
unless we first know who we are, or unless we know what human nature
is. If we go back to the old Greek idea that education means bringing
ones own nature out, then sociobiology should be the foundation study
regarding how we may or may not tame animal man and civilize the
beast. But I believe sociobiological study also has to include the
deepest activating dynamic within human life, defined here as the
primal activation of the material Inward Dynamis, or the activation
of the material Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which works in conjunction with natural outside evolution. This brings religion into
science.
Human nature has freedom but it is a
freedom within the strictures of biology and the environment. We do
not have a non-material freedom outside of material life based on
non-materialism. Materialism still leads toward Godhood in evolution
so we need not reject the God of traditional
religion, we need only transform it into reality. This is how we
define taming or civilizing the beast in relation to real human
nature as defined by both sociobiology and theological materialism.
As we civilize the beast we tame or shape only what actually can be
tamed and shaped in accord with nature, which still leads life toward
Godhood by way of material and supermaterial evolution.
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