Monday, May 15, 2017
The next religious mission: why would we want to be independent of the will?
Schopenhauer thought genius can work
independently of the end-seeking will, and that philosophical
objectivity---and also great art as well as Buddha's bliss---could be
achieved that way. But why would we want to be independent
of the will, or the instincts within every cell of the body, if the
will seeks to activate material life to evolve to Godhood? Schopenhauer
thought genius could be objective by being independent of the
will, but the will or spirit-will, which is a material
activation, seeks the highest truth (objectivity), goodness, and
beauty by way of material evolution.
I would rather call the will the
Super-Id, but Schopenhauer thought of the will as a super-monster
(Freud followed him in this). Civilizing the beast means
philosophically and culturally helping the material will (the old word was spirit) to attain its sacred
goal as best we can. Although material life probably evolves to
Godhood eventually even without our help, we can speed up the process as our knowledge increases by removing obstacles to the various
levels of Godhood. That is the next religious mission.
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