Sunday, June 16, 2019

Transforming the moral imagination


I agree with the conservative call for the moral imagination in literature, art, films etc. but the question is, which moral imagination, which ethical imagination? What is your criteria for discrimination between good and evil? Which religion?

Does your moral imagination creatively show us that we are sinful fallen beings and the material world is evil, while the non-material spiritual world is good? If decadence is defined as the loss of an end, an object, as C.M. Joad said, what is your end, what is your object?

Affirming the material world of evolution as the means to attaining real Godhood is the source of the moral imagination, the ethical imagination, and the criteria for discrimination between good and evil in the philosophy of theological materialism. Some would call this the "diabolical" imagination which supposedly puts the kiss of death on the idea of evolution as the means to attaining Godhood. That bothers me, but it is not a good enough blockade to change my philosophy.

In any case, the old ascetic experience of the God or Father within is retained in the Twofold Path, but that inward path is transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution toward always-ascending levels of real Godhood.

Literature, art, films, etc. will be revived from both the blockade of asceticism and the modern decadence of the loss of an end in art when the moral imagination is transformed by sacred evolution in theological materialism.

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