Saturday, May 4, 2019

Transcendence, Immanence, Atomism, Organicism

The concept of a dynamic immanent God/Nature does not mean that divine creativity is the inner dimension of merely the world of human experience.  It further entails that divine creativity is also the inner principle of human behavior.  Spinoza's concept of Intuition consists in one's realization of that principle, not in an inert beholding of a deity, as is entailed in the usual concept of such Intuition as merely contemplative.  Thus, he anticipates an implication of Evolution other than the ones previously discussed--that an individual human functions not as an independent Atom, but as Part of a Whole--in this case of the Species, in particular, rather than of Nature, in general.  So, the standard classification of Spinoza as a Rationalist completely misses how the concept of immanent divinity entails the possibility of a replacement of an Atomist concept of human behavior with an Organicist concept of human behavior.

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