Friday, September 8, 2017

Organicism and Theopolis

As has been previously discussed, a significant challenge to Social Atomism is the existence of the human Species, since in any association of members of the species, it constitutes what Atomism denies--a concrete Unity of the Multiplicity. So, one variety of the doctrine that seems to overcome that challenge is Theopolis, which, as populated by incorporeal Souls that have been individually saved from the cursed species, therefore transcend it. Now, as is well-known, the existence of such a Polis seems neither provable nor disprovable, but, even so, what is usually attributed to it, including that it is a 'city', are characteristics that do not seem to transcend the corporeal realm.  Rather, it seems to consist in nothing more than many of the corporeal goods without the corporeal ills, but also without some of the corporeal goods, namely those which are properties of what is excluded from this realm--intra-species relations.  So, not only is the existence of a Theopolis questionable, so, too, is whether or not, even in principle, it is a better Polis than the Organicist one.

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