Saturday, August 06, 2016
The airy nothing of naming
It is not really true that “ the
beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names,” as
Confucius said. The beginning of wisdom is to center on the thing
rather than the name of the thing. The “permanence,” “idealism,”
and "spiritualism ” of names and ideas has been a falsehood
perpetuated by centering on the names of things rather than the
thing-itself, religious gurus and philosophers from the Vedas to
Plato, Aquinas, Kant and Heidegger have perpetuated this falsehood.
The thing-itself in both religion and
philosophy has been mistaken for a name or symbol only. This led to
the apotheosis of naming when God was given a spiritual-only,
non-material name, or idea, or symbol, and not seen as a living or
future living material/supermaterial object or objects. This does not
mean that God is rejected, it means that the name of Godhood needs to
be transformed from a mere spiritual name or idea into a living or
future material/supermaterial living thing, object, or objects.
This describes the basic foundation of
the religion, philosophy, ontology and epistemology of theological materialism, which can bring together religion, philosophy, science
and politics again.
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