"So he created man in his own image."
[Genesis 1:27]
Ideologies, philosophies, and religions do not explain the world through the inquiry and understanding of Reality. They create the world they try to explain.
This is because Reality (with a capital R) on its own is boring, meaningless, and purposeless. It is merely a scaffold, a skeleton that we cover with the flesh of our ideas and the skin of our imagination. It's the green screen in movies, or a mannequin that we dress with whatever we want.
That's why philosophy, ideology, and religion are not ways of seeking Truth or understanding Reality. They do not seek Truth, they create it.
In summary, they represent a creative force (vis creativa), rather than a contemplative or inquisitive force (vis contemplativa).
[Genesis 1:27]
Ideologies, philosophies, and religions do not explain the world through the inquiry and understanding of Reality. They create the world they try to explain.
This is because Reality (with a capital R) on its own is boring, meaningless, and purposeless. It is merely a scaffold, a skeleton that we cover with the flesh of our ideas and the skin of our imagination. It's the green screen in movies, or a mannequin that we dress with whatever we want.
That's why philosophy, ideology, and religion are not ways of seeking Truth or understanding Reality. They do not seek Truth, they create it.
In summary, they represent a creative force (vis creativa), rather than a contemplative or inquisitive force (vis contemplativa).
And this applies to science to some extent too. Science seeks practicality, rather than Truth (with a capital T). In over-simplified words: it creates "models" that can work efficiently.
+ Just to be clear, I do not mean that "everything is relative" and all philosophies are equally valid and invalid... This is just stupid.
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"So he created man in his own image." [Genesis 1:27] Ideologies, philosophies, and religions do not explain the world through the inquiry and understanding of Reality. They create the world they try to explain. This is because Reality (with a capital R) on…
As soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. Thus, philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, the will to "creation of the world"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil