Will and Transcendence

The superiority of one realm to another in traditional hierarchical Dualisms often consists in asymmetrical causality, i. e. the superior realm can affect the inferior, but not vice versa. One expression of such asymmetry is the thesis that the idea of a transcendent realm can be experienced by a human only if the idea originates in that transcendent realm, so that that very idea can be taken as proof of the existence of its object. Accordingly, even Levinas' Outer-Inner Dualism is hierarchical, respectively, because, for him, transcendent Exteriority can only be passively experienced by Interiority. In contrast, in Formaterialism, the Material Principle of Experience, Will, is the mundane process of the surpassing of the given. In other words, Will is Transcendence, i. e. in Formaterialism, Transcendence has an immanent origin.