The Act of a Being of Ego After we must have declared the God (Christianity in view) as either dead or non-existent ab initio, and must have succeeded in throwing away all the contents of the Bible as stupid, what next is there to do? Do we shout eureka and then its all done and dusted? Does the world become a paradise and aa bliss after that? From my readings of G.W.F Hegel on the idea of God, I understand Hegel to say, There seems to be a preconditioning of the existence of God on the existence of humans who are finite beings. This preconditioning is a falsity and impediment to the status of higher reality of the supreme. Man in his finitude tries to surmount that which gives him limitation and thus set forth to make a definition of God from his own being and low ratiocination. (Paraphrase mine) The metaphysical proofs of the existence of God are deficient interpretations and descriptions of the minds elevation from the world to God, because they fail to express or, rather, to bring out the moment of negation which is implied in this elevation. For if the world is contigent (zufallig), it must be only falling (fallendes), only appearing, nothing in and for itself. The meaning of the elevation of the spirit is that the world possesses Being but Being which is only appearnce; the true Being absolute truth, is beyond all appearances in God alone, that God alone is true Being. (Hegel, 1830) Man seeks freedom and does not wish to conceive that there is a Being which is superior to man. Either he kills that superior idea or he defines that idea in his own being as mortal. Reference: -The Philosophy of Persons; Solidarity and Cultural Creativity, Washington, DC, PAIDEIA Press, 1994, P.146. -Iweajunwa Princewill
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