God be and teleology

Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism

Towards Ecstasy bliss

Creation is from God not act non- expansion itself, but withdrawal, renunciation. God and all creatures, that is less than God. Simone Weil

Nature of humanity and sense of the world

The world is going from bad to worse : this is the complaint that rises from all sides, as old as history, as old as the earlier poetry to history, as old as the oldest finally all legends poetic, religious priests. All these legends are yet to start the world with good, they speak of a golden age, living in paradise, or a happier life in the company of celestial beings. But this happiness, they are soon vanish like a dream, and we are eager to portray the fall in the wrong ( moral evil with which always goes hand in hand physical harm ) when the world sinks to our chagrin, accelerated motion, so that now ( and it is now as old as history) we live in the supreme time, the last day and the end of the world are upon us, and in some regions of Hindustan, the God who will judge and destroy the world, Ruttren is already worshiped as the god who is now the highest since Wischnou, the curator of the world, tired of the charge given him by Brahma, the creator the world, is removed, there are already several centuries.

To oppose this idea a more modern opinion, heroic opinion is much less common and found credit as among philosophers nowadays especially among teachers : this is the idea that the world works precisely the opposite direction and it constantly goes from worst to best (although not a barely perceptible) or at least that is in human nature a predisposition to such progress . Kant

What foresight...

Philosophy linear and cyclical

Kant's work is primarily intended to demonstrate * the positive evolution of humanity.

* And accelerate this trend.

The moral imperative is also evidence and a requirement. It is a condition to drive our species to universal peace. But the idealistic vision it does not reach the German philosopher was chosen by humanity. The nostalgic and reactionary complaint of a world going from bad to worse, has extended well beyond. Long after the Enlightenment, according to Hegel, Comte, Marx, Nietzsche...

Old Orchid fatalism flourishes today. She grew up under the same fertilizer absurd lines created by excessive materialism overconsumption, waste, commodification of the human being, narcissistic explosion obviously narrow road optimism.

Philosopher, intellectuals, journalists

That crushed worker can work to forget the issue of human development, one can understand... The individual forbidden education is obliged to ignore the metaphysical questions, or... but this should not be the case of the philosopher or artist. This should not affect the intellectual, journalist, politician spiritual or scientific.

These free corporations supposedly should be able to cope with the current soundproofing practiced by liberalism. They should, as they say smart and critical, represent an alternative to materialism madman. Of course, abuse, pessimism and despair will sooner or later lead to positive change reactions. But thinkers heads of humanity should be able to spot the absurdity of the current system. Their role, in principle, oppose any oppression of man to the manufacturer.

thinkers

Each of these corporations, to me it seems, should be in contact with the teleology. Every creative should reflect on the human becoming as it is in contact with history.
This is not the case. Since the end of communism. The new all-powerful market forces man to immediately *.

* (at most, during the term)

Creative, depending very much on the market, had to acquiesce to the new psychic. This is not the only reason why the thought of himself forward. Neutralizing the criticism by the new dominant... soaring of individualism and selfishness... the collapse of moral values ​​accompanying the fall of religious values ​​... Also participated in this posture on the immediate.

Everything has a reason, even if the reason ignores

Obviously, when you dig a little, this logic of evolution we jump to consciousness. To undertake globalization, humanity needed this madman system. He must go through this vast stage of injustice and narcissism to lay the foundations of the universal system.

Only by releasing the son of the philosophy of history, the thought went to the long term. She lost sight of the general and positive progression of humanity.

However, between the tyranny of ancient Greece and modern democracy... between the pre-Socratic philosophy and the philosophy of Husserl... between science as Pythagoras and modern science... evolution seems indisputable.

The deep desire to do good

And above all, the principle of positive development is fully detectable in human behavior. Basically, the man wants to be. He wants to move his children, his neighborhood, his city, his country, where his department humanity. By engaging in an artistic industry, philosophical, political or scientific, the individual intends to improve the world. It necessarily has claim to make positive innovations to the industry he has chosen. It is therefore naturally inclined to believe in a positive progress of humanity.

Even if it meets the Quattrocento art, contemporary artist, can not imagine more than the current art. If he returned to the techniques and concepts of Michelangelo, he came out immediately in the history of art. His work would lose any artistic relevance *.

* Even if he kept one at the technical and reproduction.

The 're traditionalists are pessimistic about the future and optimistic for the past L Mumford.

Monotheistic religions

When the believer, it is difficult to doubt the principle of positive developments :

If it adheres to the monotheistic vision (Judaism, Christianity, Islam ) it to necessarily believe in a linear progression. A positive move towards a state of perfection ( the apocalypse ). A State embodied by the kingdom of God to a world of justice and holiness. A world in which absolute love ( supreme attribute of God ) leads all human minds *.

* Because God says otherwise : absolute love, reign on earth

When absolute love fills the mind is bliss and salvation. Induced bliss and immortality. A psychic immortality and have no physical. Ecstasy destroys indeed simply in fear that death is truly the body.

Asian spiritualities

For Asian spiritualities, the worldview is cyclical. But that does not change, they finally arrive at the same conclusions. The cyclical vision through several phases (birth, construction, golden age, destruction). The golden age can be understood as the age of perfection. Although Hinduism and Buddhism * puts perfection in the beginning of the cycle * is valued step.

* As some Greek philosophy

Once out of this state of perfection, all the work is to go back. this cyclic form so naturally puts a new perfection to the horizon *.

* And in that sense, this horizon follows a phase of destruction as in the monotheistic religions.

Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism

Teleology in terms of the spiritual.

The end of time, the apocalypse

That humanity is destined to achieve his earthly perfection, different monotheisms have already expressed. They delivered as a metaphor such as " the end of time."

The end of time does not mean the end of the world. It is in my opinion the end of the notion of time. If God imposes the reign of love on earth, all human beings are in a state of absolute love. We are absolutely synonymous with ecstasy and bliss, the ecstatic state is predominant. And we know from mystical experiences, ecstasy and a state of immediate clean. And naturally this state abolishes the concept of time ( since the individual is set in the present). This is the end, in the blissful spirit, concepts of past and future *

* notions preventing man builder, full access to the absolute present, the immediate pure bliss.

Judaism

Precious in the sight of the eternal, is the death of his Hasidim ( 116 ps )

One of the first religions have expressed the idea of ​​a universal and positive purpose is Judaism.

For this mother-religion, the end of history is the earthly realization of a just city : the world will come to an expanded the dimensions of the kingdom created a new land, subject to the exclusive sovereignty without limit of god *

* God is understood as a sum of absolute love, there is thus a land subject to the exclusive sovereignty and unlimited love.

Suppression of political violence and social injustice, end yoke nations (thus achieving universal peace which later speak Kant ).

For Rabbi Hiya, the messianic era has opened a contemplative life of bliss and knowledge of God.

For Shmuel, gift, sharing and sacrifice is the essence of this new spiritual life.

Maimonides stresses the need to build this divine space. To act, to work this world instead of party individually to meet him. Instead of engaging in asceticism and contemplation, the coming of the Messiah should not be the condition of our actions by saying, it is close to where it is remote, so obey the command to act in accordance with universal morality does not depend not the Messiah. After what we have to do, if God grants to us, our children or our grandchildren to see the Messiah, it will be even better if we do not lose anything *

* because in doing so we have built the Messianic time when the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the goat.

Redemption is only spread the knowledge of God among humans. When all human has realized that it is ultimately for a higher and broader thing ( lead humanity to its material and spiritual perfection) will be back in the era of redemption. This is the rational understanding of our direction ( which must be proven rationally ) that may cease the enmity, discord, tyranny and evil men then possess the right knowledge of their purpose. Maimonides and concludes : they do not do no harm, no havoc on all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God as the waters cover the seas again he rejects the idea of ​​a revolution the laws of natural determinism part of creation. Understanding of God can be done with the help of logic and the principle of evolution. Maimonides does not recognize the messianic redemption a higher value, but merely an instrumental value and functional that establish the means to attain knowledge of God which is in itself the purpose and absolute value. That the Messiah should not be revered as a superior being. It would be a kind of " average " designed to illuminate the knowledge of God. There would not worship the way is the creator of the means that must be. And this is not the coming of the Messiah who is to be hoped, but the purpose of mankind is to say the universal knowledge of God. do not deify the Messiah the prophet then allows us to capture the contribution of Islam doing well in between god and that Muhammad is his prophet. It is therefore necessary to reduce the principle of messiah or prophet to the rank of " intuitive." The prophet would be another human hyper intuitive one, a reformer, a revolutionary. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Luther... reformers would appear that when a religion or belief seems threatened sclerosis.

Before the Messiah will establish an era of peace and nations we do not require conversion to Judaism but to comply with its laws ( thou shall not kill, do not steal, do not covet the property your neighbor... ) which simply means that human laws are actually put into practice.

In that time, there will be no hunger or war or strife and jealousy for the earth shall process abundance worldwide will have other concerns that the knowledge of God.

For the Maharal of Prague, world unity emerges gradually and not all at once. The unity of the world subject to redemption is considered the purpose of the story. Until the advent of the Messiah, the world can not reach its true unity because it would return to conflict with the fundamental law of things namely, the gradual development of every thing to perfection and unity achieved. For him, the redemption ( or perfection ) is not due to the miraculous intervention of a higher power, it is explained by an immanent in the nature of things process, process leading inevitably to the achievement of perfection.

The redemption of Zion will come only through action.

The redemption of Israel, to which we aspire will not be a sudden miracle. Almighty, that his name be blessed, will not suddenly come down from heaven and order his people to start. It will not send either, a wink, the Messiah to hear the sound of the trumpet of Israel and scattered them together in Jerusalem. The redemption of Israel will come gradually and the light of the issue gradually shine. Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer 1795 1874

Christianity

We find this idea in Christianity teleological

listen to the prophecies of Isaiah about this: The day the world will no longer be governed by the Ministry of the "tree of knowledge" of good and evil which the division and cutting were introduced to the world, but according to the ministry of the "tree of life" as a project bringing world unity. The end of conflicts, of good and evil, pure and impure. The kingdom of God on earth, an era of universal peace, security and justice, prosperity and harmony. Then appear the " world to come " characterized by the resurrection, the last judgment and the kingdom of God, and this world, " no eye sight" ( Isaiah 34-3 )

I heard from the throne, a loud voice saying : Behold, I will create new heavens and a well in the past will no longer be called new earth, he did not ascend to the secret heart of the once human laws become our very nature, our animal past ( so our anti- human tendencies ) have lost our minds, on the contrary, it is a perpetual enthusiasm and excitement that I create ( this is the feeling that comes when we are in a state of absolute happiness and bliss). Now there will be no more death or mourning or cry or suffering, because the old world is gone ( death being only fear from our instincts, awareness of future humans, controlling instincts overpower the suddenly, the fear of death, so death itself ). Then he said write for these words are trustworthy and true and he said : I am the alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end (the time that we have used to build humanity is a creation impulses, desires, and trends, it no longer exists in bliss, since there are no regrets, no desires, no waiting, just an emanation and a state of consciousness Instant ). To him who is thirsty I will give the source of living water free ( Apocalypse 21, 1-6 ). Then Isaiah describes the holy city : he ( the angel ) carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city coming down out of heaven from God, she shone with the same glory of God, its radiance remembered as a gem stone of crystal-clear jasper ( Apocalypse, 21, 10-11 ) the city n has no need of sun or moon because it is the glory of God (love ) that illuminates, its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory ( the glorious will be more power, vanity, wealth, but love ) its gates will never be shut throughout the day because in this place there will be more night (21, 23-24 ), while the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid ( the dominated will have nothing to fear from dominant). The calf and the lion will eat together, a little child shall lead them ( the state of bliss is a state of indifference, so childhood ). The cow and the bear shall graze ( the power is vegetable and mineral ) the same small house. The lion, like the ox shall eat straw. The baby shall play by the cobra 's nest. On the hole of the asp young child lay his hand (which means : trends will disappear disappearing every principle source of antagonism and violence ( domination, elitist distinction between individuals) there will be nothing to fear of others, more abuse of each other, so it is now the strong and the weak can sleep together, the Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces and throughout the world.

Buddhism

Buddhism by variations induced also the same teleological purpose

Indeed, Buddhism gradually move towards the notion of salvation to both individual and collective.

The ideal is not that of one who manages Arhant nirvana, but that of the Bodhisattva who reached the final stage of awakening, decides to return to earth to help all living to be free of the vicious cycle of rebirth.,

Islam

Ditto for Islam

For the Sufi Islam, it is the experience in Haqîqa, the union of opposites, the union field dilution of the human in the divine (to be developed ).

Jainism

In Jainism

The Jina ( N ), called the posting of all the pleasures of the body through a rigorous asceticism. The goal is to achieve death, the transcendent and beatific state ( to be developed).

Hinduism

To Hinduism

State Moksha : union with the divine, dilution in absolute access to the supreme knowledge.
Yoga helps to attain the state of Moksha, attached to the principle of the universe. (to be developed )

Taoism

For Taoism

The Tao : jue ( awakening ) or jie tuo (salvation ) division of being with the cosmos. In mystical union with the Dao or the origin of things (to be developed ).