27. Environmentally evaluating Schopenhauer
posted by Todd Park Mohr at
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
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To attend to creation is to
attend to God.
To attend to the moment is to
attend to eternity.
Pirke Avot
There is a clear and pervasive dualism that becomes apparent when investigating the notion that in all sexual endeavors and romantic love the "genius of the species" is at work within the individual. This aforementioned idea is clearly used as one of the primary building blocks of the materialistic (in the more modern Darwinian sense) view on evolution. The dualism consists in the tension between the "procreative genius" subconsciously at work, and the more conscious intellectual endeavor to obtain freedom from the inherent constraints (and suffering) associated with procreation. Examples are the ingenious methods in medical science used for contraception (at first glance a thwarting of the species' "will") and the inconceivable benefits for human kind this has resulted in. This might even help to save the human species in the end considered against the backdrop of environmentalism and over-population. It is easy to see that this "genius" might be a rather more unintelligible "animal instinct" brought under the rule of esthetic and moral reason. I submit that in the individual there is something more at work than simply the genius of the species. An idealistic mystical notion (or knowing) that is yearning for the Platonic form of love coupled with a more balanced experience of the moral and esthetic. And I submit that this intelligence or will in the individual is superior to the "genius of the species". - Marius Blom (South Africa)
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