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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