Friday, October 12, 2018

Hegel defines a spiritual non-material idea, and that is the same old problem


Hegel’s definition of beauty is “the sensible shining forth of the idea” Idea? Hegel defines a spiritual non-material idea, and that is the same old problem that goes all the way back to ancient religion and philosophy.

Ideas depend on evolved matter which creates ideas, not the other way around. Without the body and the material brain there would be no ideas or definitions of "spiritualism." Spiritualism is an idea thought up in the material ingredients of the mind. Even the God-Within is a blissful material experience by way of ascetically blocking material drives and desires---most of the gurus teach it that way.

But before spiritualists and idealist's become agitated over the loss of their favorite fantasy: Godhood and the philosophical "zenith" are not lost, theological materialism affirms them---but they are material, or more precisely, supermaterial. And Godhood is evolved to in the material/supermaterial world. Conservatism remains viable.

But before we rush to the very human idea of "final" endings: evolution and devolution never end, there will always be gods and universes evolving, arriving, rising and falling.

So in theological materialism we have nothing to lose but our deification of ideas and spiritualism, and we have a grand material synthesis of religion and science to gain, along with real Godhood.

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