A
mixing of realism and idealism defines the classical arts, according
to Gail Leggio. I think evolutionary realism best describes the arts
involved in our sacred evolution toward Godhood. Evolutionary realism
brings art philosophy back to the living object, the natural world,
but also extends it out into the future toward our evolution to
ascending levels of Godhood.
What we consider “beautiful”
tends to have evolved in the Pleistocene through natural selection
and sexual selection, and we retain it today. We can build on this,
on what we are, since it doesn’t work well to reject human nature.
We can build on instinctive feelings and empirical ideas of what is
true, beautiful and good, with the goal of evolving to the zenith of
these things, which is Godhood.
We are aided in this direction
by the inward, purely physical, activation of the Will-To-Godhood, or
Tirips, which seeks Godhood by materially activating life to evolve
toward Godhood, working along with the shaping of outside evolution
and selection. But even without acknowledging this inward purpose,
evolution has been moving toward more efficient forms, more
complexity, with occasional stops and side-turnings along the
way.
Morality does not have to be a counter-movement opposing
nature's endeavors to arrive at a higher type, which was Nietzsche's
view. But devolution can and does take place with various negative or
down-going kinds of morality, the kind of morality that says this
material world is not good. Godhood is not only the zenith of truth,
beauty and goodness, it is the zenith of successful survival and
reproduction. Science and religion can meet here.
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