One day when i cease to breathe,take me away to a place i will see the sun nomore,a place of peace and tranquility: Such a rhetorical thought from an addicted born again christian.But hold on ,at least for now.I am just hoping against the hope that Minerva,the virgin roman God of wisdom will reveal,the secret of what lies ahead - life after death.Is there any existence beyond the phantom and imaginary 'Gods'?,that we have come to accept and embrace,yet there is nothing empirical to prove the mythical world beyond our sight.
Existence in this moment, is the only reality.Interestingly,reality contains everything that exists,but existence is only a subset of what is real.Therefore nothing unreal exists.Western philosophical idealists like Hegel,somehow approved the notion that,in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.And the earth was without form and full of darkness.In essence,i suppose this was derived from oral tradition,where religious beliefs were passed on from generation to generation - in a quest to understand the supernatural.
Typically Philosophical materialists believed that in the beginning there was matter - these assumptions were purely based on empirical and scientific evidence.Theocracy tells us that the world is merely 2009years after the death of christ,yet human endevour using scientific methods suggest that ,the world has been in existence for millions of years.If i may bring Hegel back into this phenomena,his arguments are concurrent with biblical suggestions that,all man are immortal - thus succumb to the death of the flesh and the spirit gets reunited with the creator.
Of course,Hegel's arguments did not go unchallenged.Even though Karl Marx enthused on emulating Hegel,he noted that there were fundamental differences in how things are seen pertaining to the world we live in.To clarify an event is(for Hegel no other than) to explain it in terms of logical necessity - the world comes to self consciousness and man rests in God.Whilst Marx felt compelled to radically assume the world revolved around the material state of things.Afterall Marx might have tried to develop his theories using propaganda by denouncing Hegel's earlier philosophical approach.
So does love make the world go round or does the world make love go round?Food for thought!
The mere reason,we keep visiting relics like the gravesites of our beloved one's,is a norm which is synonymous with the religious whitewash that pre-existed.Thus we will die clueless,of whether there is a heaven for the 'innocent' souls.
I suppose God lives in the sun - anyone who tries to go near it using scientific instruments will melt to death,anyone who looks direct into the sun will fall blind,and without the sun,the entire world will freeze to death.Interestingly,the moon itself does not have any light but the light it possesses, is a reflection from the sun.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
very interesting - Hegel was a convinced believer in God, certainly. You seem to have hold of a version of the ontological argument in favour of the likely existence of God - that there is an ideal form of all objects and that the ideal from of all ideal forms must exist, that is God. Conversely if there is not such an 'ultimate' form of forms (unknowable to humans of course) then there could be no particular ideal forms. Without ideal forms, particular perceptable objects can not exist.
In philosophy this argument which derives the existence of God by means of pure logic (and thus does not need any empirical evidence) is associated with the middle ages and Scholasticism. It is not suspectible to proof one way or another, and it depends on academic greek logic (now widely discredited as a possible route to essential or universal truths about anything).
The modern attitude to ontological arguments is to essentially put them to one side, since they can not be proved one way or the other. As faith in logic as a way of understanding nature, except at a superficial level, to be replaced by an appreciation of psychology, the ontological argument has declined in importance, though it is still apparently widely taught and discussed in Universities in the USA.
Post a Comment