From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: When Being is a Being ...and then it is Not a Being Again.
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:21:45 +0100


> > It follows: Existentialism is an abstract Christianity.
> 
> This is absurd. And nothing to do with being (and beings). Apart from its
> utter irrelevancy (nothing to do with being, only supposed beings), this
> syllogistic fanatsy is only a story within Christianity (no doubt other
> reliogistic nonsenses can substitute for this rubbish but the principle
> remains the same). Nonsense writ large and thus even more irrelevant.

Existence has all the characteristics of God: will of being,
inescapableness, overwhelmness. So, existentialism is not outside the scope
of religion, but is in itself a mystical theology. The only difference
between a Heideggerian text and Biblical text, is the accent on a personal
dedication of finding your own truth your own way. We can name such a
knowledge theory: thelesmic theory of knowledge. It basically says that each
and every knowledge inside an existence is the result of will. So, the only
idea which prevents this terrain of boasted knowledge to degenerate into a
chaos is the idea of mystical participation. So, to my text at
http://members.home.nl/tgeorgescu/2questions.html has to be added the
complementary but not opposite view of the thelesmic determinism.

Definition: the to be is total, fundamental and absolute, and this is God.
We may say that this definition is good or evil, but we will always exist in
something which is beyond any reach (transcendental) yet most at hand
(immanent). Each system is determined by the longevity due to its degree of
perfection, outside such a thought no dialogue between systems is possible.
This is the metaphysical argument per se, and it is to be found in Acts
5:34-39. It can be traced as the basic thought of Platonism, yet it is more
than that.

So, nobody can now say that Platonism or Aristotelianism, that they are not
empirically testable. In fact, they require more time for being tested than
the rudimentary hypothesis of the phlogiston. But, the modern man, facing
perishment, he cannot wait...

Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!
 
Tudor Georgescu
 
http://members.home.nl/tgeorgescu
 
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