Totalities

Both Christ and Darwin were organized around a complex of laws and concepts that fit together in a totality. Christ's world view was instigated by God and Darwin's by material evolution, although Darwin seems to have believed in God as well. Before Darwin science had challenged the Christian totality with the Enlightenment as scientific reasoning became the instigator of the totality.

Integrality became the more politically correct new word for totality following communist and fascists attempts to create political totalities. The fascists became entangled in racial supremacy versus racial inferiority and the communists became entangled in forcing racial equality, and both fell apart rather quickly.

The arrogance of traditional religious philosophy is to believe that the human intellect (which some call spirit ) can grasp the “totality” of things, which defined the goal of philosophy for them, that is, to see the world by transcending the world to experience the “spiritual” world of God.

Regarding totalities we could almost think of history as BD, before Darwin, and AD after Darwin. Before Darwin in the West total history was thought of as before and after Christ, BC/AD.

I see the goal of philosophy as seeing the ongoing process of life activated by the deepest sacred drive of life to live and evolve, which essentially creates the biological origin of social behavior, and that activation has the material goal of evolving life all the way to Godhood within the ups and downs of natural evolutionary life. Evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood, where grasping the “totality” of things may be possible, but beyond the reach of the present human species.

So Godhood, religion, and moral end-goals remain, but without demeaning life or the material evolution to those goals. Thomas Aquinas got the goal right when he said the goal of human beings is to attain the likeness of God, but he got it wrong when he said to attain the likeness of God an un-material soul must separate from the material body. It is not a non-material soul or or spirit that brings us to a non-material Godhood, the sacred material drive of life brings us to super-material Godhood by way of material evolution, and the great and sacred task is to help it along its way.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

That defines the next totality.