Saturday, October 28, 2017
Word fluff and the logic of the material
Call it the logic of the material: the
material physical object takes precedence over its definition or
meaning, regardless of whether the material physical object is fully
understood. The material object is grasped by its materiality.
Definition and meaning can come later but they are always less
important than the material object in itself. When this logic of the
material is applied to religion or philosophy we can see how far away
from the actual material object these fields have become, even to the
point of there being no real material object behind the definitions. Religious or philosophical definitions of God and truth would be an example
of this idealism or spiritualism. But God and truth need not therefore be rejected as
only word fluff, divine things can be brought back to material
reality. For example, in theological materialism,
real material/supermaterial Godhood is understood as being evolved to in continually higher stages of material evolution in the real
material world. Human nature, which helps develop political and cultural things, can this way be grounded in the real world.
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