If the totality of existence includes all universes that ever were or will be, and if philosophy has been happening everywhere forever already, the idea of a beginning of philosophy is historically nonsensical, but utterly real and urgent for any individual anywhere who aspires to be fully intelligent and conscious as a being. Each of us must begin thinking originally and completely to the point of genuine cosmic consciousness. Short of this, our earthbound modern so-called thinkers are equivalent to proud and clever savages on an island who have never heard of places like India, Greece or Western Europe. Local cultural logic or deconstruction games, all kept within English for the most part, as in America and Western Europe, betray hidden prejudices and actual intellectual failure in terms of real consciousness. This of course would explain why some of them have decided that they and all of us cannot be anything but soulless and mindless neurocognitive biological robots extinguished completely at death with the conclusion that there is no such thing as mind or consciousness other than as an epiphenomenon or side-effect of biological electronics in human material brains. They do not have to become more conscious because they have decided they do not have the little pompous semblance of consciousness they are using to remain certain of themselves as fleeting bodies in a lifeless universe. For them, even the Presocratic Greek philosophers are silly and laughable, yet a real case can be made, as did Heidegger, that the Presocratics were more intelligent than modern European and scientific so-called thinkers.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:40:27 +0000
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