Disalienation and Transcendence
Sunday, August 27, 2006 —
Introduction
The title is new, but the brute thought has been ten or more years in the making. This book is a testament of my thinking mind. I have for the longest time had a quality in my thinking that has perhaps made me a great thinker amongst some circles: I am open-minded. This means that I will make a 180 degree turn in thought. I’m not afraid to wake up one morning and negate half of my theories, and with ardor.
So this book is what is left after about fifteen years of thinking. The book’s greatest fault, it might be said, is that it is systematic philosophy. I tried and I tried not to be systematic, with a disdain for Hegel’s long, inaccessible phrases, and the product is a system as difficult at times as Hegel’s own. I blame the human mind for this, although I take responsibility for all faulty thinking in this book. Then there are things that I can’t take responsibility for because they are thoughts that I came up with with other people, or thoughts that come from known philosophers that I have modified. A work of philosophy is in a sense a work of society. I like to think that this book takes a stand on certain social problems. The main social problem is tyranny, which I have tried to conceptualize in my so many deterministic prison-states.
PART ONE: DISALIENATION
MAN HIMSELF
- Man as lost to himself, alienated
- Man as having nothing, total debt, dispossession
- Man is not even who he is
- Man is substance that seeks further materialization of spiritual activity => “dream-genesis”
- Evaluations, value-judgments
- “Logopathy” (logical pathology) => attitude, belief, cognition, emotion, values, the whole thought/feeling apparatus
- Man can have principles if he chooses, he is an agent of choice
- The basic choice, in its pure or extreme form, is the “Life or Death” dilemma
MAN AND TECHNOLOGY
- Technology changes the identity (The “Technologized Ego”)
- Technology has the power to dehumanized
MAN AND THE WORLD
- Hostile nature, natural environment
- Lack of control over material conditions
- Make an entente with the world based on YOUR principles.
MAN AND ANGUISH
- Life is stress
- Experience is neurotraumatic
- Ecstasy (of the system)
MAN AND OTHERS
- Man, in groups, seeks to limit his possibilities, because freedom makes him anxious
- Moral law is a stress response, a deterministic one
- Desire, love, lust
- Trust, you cannot trust anyone
MAN AS CHILD
- The independent child
- The independent child is not responsible for his mother’s anxiety or shame
- The independent child is responsible for acquiring the skills needed to survive
- The independent child manipulates to get what he needs
- It’s the adult that’s dependent on his child, not the other way around. We just project our own dependence on the child, saying that it is in need. Its needs are covered, believe me, and if you don’t give the child what it wants, it will go elsewhere
MAN AND GOD
- The poverty of religious dogmatism
- Theological materialism
- Spirit of ecstasy, ecstatic vision
- The God within (())
MAN AND SCIENCE
- Technocracy
MAN AND PHILOSOPHY
- Debunking moral philosophy
- The Dereliction of Phenomenology, Current and Past
MAN IN THE CITY
- The polity
- Decentralization
- Communities
MAN AND HIS COUNTRY
- National terrorism, active resistance against tyranny and oppression
POLITICAL MAN
- Active resistance against tyranny
- National terrorism
PART TWO: TRANSCENDENCE
The Personal Mission
- Stages on life’s way
- Emotions as signals for action (“active feeling”, “sympathetic participation”, etc.)
- Emotions as access channels to dark truths, acquired genetically by the species (through “genosense” and “geogrammatical forms”)
- Acquired genetic information versus information acquired by individual experience
- Aaximization of life as fundamental goal, growth and reproduction
- Needs satisfied, fundamental purpose of life
Transcendental Anthropology
- Presupposition-less anthropology
- Joyful and Sorrowful conceptions of man
Crises of Belief
- Doubt as to “belongingness”
- Doubt as to rightness of one’s actions
- Disproof of basic conceptions
- Disapproval, rejection
Epistemology of Choice, Choice of Epistemology
- What is belief, are beliefs chosen?
- Belief => value => norms, normative rules => attitudes => behaviors = results, outcomes
Theological Materialism
- God as the animating force, as bioenergy, bioelectricity, the God molecule
Ontological Christology
- God within
- Inwardness as a vocation
- The path of solitude, introspection
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