Evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, July 27, 2009, 22:58 (5393 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George,
> With this I must disagree. The question is what do you mean by "life"? Is "divine intervention" possible by non-living entities? Are gods dead things? I know Nietsche claimed gods were dead, but I think he meant they were once alive.
> - It is a helluva lot more complicated than that. Nietzsche's main focus is in establishing that mankind has killed god (as god was a dogmatic structure--but he certainly doesn't posit that god was actually real) and Nietzsche recognized that spirituality (of some kind) is inherent in Man's search for meaning. So if we killed all the gods, what are we supposed to do? The Greeks gave us both mythos and logos, Nietzsche wanted to replace mysticism with yet another mysticism, in a great way that is exactly what the summa of his work amounts to. He doesn't give us a system per se but the means with which to think about creating our own. Each of us is a metaphysician and must forge a way for both parts of the human experience to be reconciled, both internal and external. But religion has been removed from our epistemology for good, which I've more or less discussed in various places here. - So the death of God has nothing to do with god himself, but what philosophy should do since it can no longer posit God as the source of knowledge. Side issues here of note are nihilism and the eternal recurrence.

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