Re: After philosophy: authenticity
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:50 am
Ego transcendance means an acquired understanding that undermines attachment to the temporal. It is a meditation on our most basic being that has a fundamental connection with reality as a whole, while disregarding the rest as temporal fluff. Not in order to completely do away with temporalities, mind you, but to cease clinging to them, to put them in their proper place within a way of living.
I understand metaphysics to be something more basic. It is, first and foremost, that within us in which identifications originate. It is the very first movement of consciousness. From there, premises are acquired, become assumed, and built upon. This is where the rest of what you mentioned, heritage - locale - tradition, come in.
I don't know why you insist on clinging onto culture and tradition. These are ultimately irrelevant to 'being' on a fundamental level, and usually serve only to cause a divide among people. We could only hope the human race grows in order to see through all these superficial labels, be it European, Christian, etc. and work together with an understanding of our commonalities as a basis.
First off, I would agree that "being - continuity - disposition" are not transcendable.Gustav Bjornstrand wrote:Being - heritage - locale - tradition - continuity - disposition. These are not transcendable. This is the stuff of existence, and 'authentic existence' is defined by noticing within existence what is real or valuable. One finds in this (in these facts of existence) the coded keys that must be deciphered to glean an image of 'metaphysic'.
A metaphysic in this sense is only attainable as idea or suggestion when it is achieved inductively from a situation: the situation of being - heritage - locale - tradition, et cetera. One must have a 'situation' for analysis, and the ideal situation, for us, is our European situation, which actually means our very selves.
I understand metaphysics to be something more basic. It is, first and foremost, that within us in which identifications originate. It is the very first movement of consciousness. From there, premises are acquired, become assumed, and built upon. This is where the rest of what you mentioned, heritage - locale - tradition, come in.
I think that understanding our own traditions, heritage, etc. is important insofar as learning who we are, and why we are the way we are. From there we should proceed to see through them.To propose 'ego transcendence' is absurd insofar as people (this means: person = being - heritage - tradition - locale and self) do not appear in transcendent terms, and they are not transcendent to anything. And they are not 'transcended'. They are realnesses. They represent tangibles. And to see them requires tangible skills, the skills of tangible analysis.
What you see as acidic and destructive is to me a true self-actualization. That is, of course, self as it relates to the Ultimate.One cannot locate a transcendence. One views the tangible, the present (what is present and viewable) and one transcends it to a metaphysical perspective that feeds self-understanding and presence-in-the-world. If it functions against that, I suggest, it is 'acidic' and 'destructive'.
To visualise 'ego transcendence' is absurd and the idea itself, as explained, in not productive to self-actualization. Yet to see in transcendent terms is a high attainment.
I don't know why you insist on clinging onto culture and tradition. These are ultimately irrelevant to 'being' on a fundamental level, and usually serve only to cause a divide among people. We could only hope the human race grows in order to see through all these superficial labels, be it European, Christian, etc. and work together with an understanding of our commonalities as a basis.