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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