Schopenhauer, along with the religious
founders, thought that all "willing" and all desires stem from lack, from
deficiency, that is, from suffering, and so material life was
degraded and made negative.
That was a mistaken and unfortunate
philosophy of life and for humanity, because life evolves to real
Godhood in the material world of desire and suffering.
The will (here called the
Spirit-Will-to-Godhood although it is entirely material) is inherent
and instinctive in every cell of the body, and it is the positive,
not negative activation of material life to evolve toward
supermaterial Godhood, which is the zenith of success in survival, as
well as the success and reward of religion.
The negative view of life of
Schopenhauer and the religious founders was designed mainly to
experience the God or Father Within, which could be blissfully
experienced (or real "objectivity" realized according to
Schopenhauer) by blocking material desires which were thought to lead
only to suffering.
Nietzsche almost recovered from
that great spiritual blockade of Schopenhauer, but he saw no goal to
the will other than a relativity of power, and no Godhood-end to his
will-to-power. So Nietzsche tried to kill God and religion as being
useless and harmful, or as being the will to power of weaklings.
That was not necessary. The will or
spirit-will of material evolution activates life to evolve to Godhood
in the material world. Suffering is overcome not by neutering
desires but by fulling desires, that is, not fulfilling hedonistic
desires but desires which enhance and affirm our upward material
evolution toward Godhood.
Restored religion can join with science
in this inherent and great evolutionary mission of life, and philosophy
and culture can reflect this scared goal.
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