Thursday, July 05, 2018
The reconciliation of the individual and the group is not an easy thing to balance but it's not a Greek tragedy
Many problems result from making the
human and the divine opposites. This makes the material and the
spiritual opposites, and science and religion opposites, and
eventually filters down to political opposition.
This great religious/philosophical
error is overcome by seeing the divine and human as only different
levels of material evolution and not as opposites. We evolve to Godhood in the material world.
According to Elliot Jurist's ("Beyond
Hegel and Nietzsche") tragedy was defined by Hegel and
Nietzsche (and the Greeks) as the highly emotional reconciliation of the human and the
divine, and the individual and the group.
I say the reconciliation of the
individual and the group is not an easy thing to balance but it's not
a Greek tragedy. The reconciliation of the individual and the group
are affirmed in the empirical sociobiological knowledge that "within
groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups
of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." (E.O.
Wilson) "Tragedy" comes from getting that balance wrong.
Whole empires, nations, and regions rise and fall related to this
sociobiological balancing act.
Getting the reconciliation of the
individual and the group right means, among other things, discerning
the difference between creative social individuals and creative
antisocial individuals, which modern psychometric testing can help
with, assuming the sociobiological knowledge of the biological origin
of most of our social behavior is affirmed. (was Hegel social and
Nietzsche antisocial?)
Politically this reconciliation also means setting up
or adapting an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in democratic republics, or wherever (legally and nonviolently) in line with the real kin and ethnic
preferences of real human nature.
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