Freitag, 1. Juni 2018

The Unfinished Enlightenment

Enlightenment is the name of the search for approach to reality under humane conditions. The goal is protection of life, improving living conditions by avoiding and reducing harm and suffering.
By acting like this, the nature of mortality is in no way denied or suppressed, but the reference to reality of all philosophical considerations in relation to lifestyle and meaning of life is presented.

Humanity is gaining its special value and responsibility by the uniqueness and irretrievability of every individual life.
The term of “sacrificing one's life” for people, ideologies and religions, especially under modern aspects, is demanding a new, really revolutionary definition with an adequate practical realization. “Revolutionary” doesn't refer to “aggressive”, but to a, so to speak, evolutionary (long overdue and long-desired) step forward. The moral justification and explanation is deduced from the murderous history of the entire humanity. For history, ever since, is fully depicting oppression, war, murder, and manslaughter. All the actual talking about peace, liberty and emancipation is reflecting a permanently wrong picture which is created by ideologies of power in the functional role of serving the sociopolitical, national as global aberrations and lies by growing violence and increasing options of extermination.

The much-quoted phrase of King Friedrich II from Prussia, everyone can be saved in his own manner (facon), is just characteristic for an unfinished enlightenment, a real establishment of the useless and destroying views of the world. For almost all of the religions and ideologies are claiming, all in all, to be in possession of the one and only truth and, even more, to have the right to impose this truth on other humans enforcing
their “facon” by sanctified injustice and inhumanity. Social institutions and charitable purposes should not obscure the facts. At the level of the international world community, regional ideologies and religions are hostile to each other, chaotically incapable of peace and addicted to primacy.

Thus, if real peace is the purpose, the principle will not be the superficially pacifying tolerance of unpeaceful delusions but the clear analysis and invalidation of such world views which commonly embed the term “freedom” in their dogmatics: The human allegedly is free as long he or she is willingly integrating, which is nothing else but being suppressed.
By submission the individual is weakened, it is extinguished for the abuse in various missions as calculable mass, as military cannon fodder, as a steerable conglomerate of consumers or to be exploited herds of poverty.

The unceasingly praised “freedom of religion” entirely complies with the unfinished enlightenment because the “own facon” is a private matter and no right of public compulsion. At the stage of state it has no influence at all according to the separation between state and church.

Of course, by such thoughts you don't change anything on the disastrous global relationships of mankind. But at the beginning of changes there is recognition that, for the enlightened human, is becoming apparent from the mess of disinformation slapping into the face of truth, from the agitation of experts and from follies of salvation.
But knowledge is the basis of enlightenment, hence also the keeping of the mass stupid, hence the insufficient education and rampant indoctrination.
Ignorance ignores knowledge, is fighting it openly and subtly.
Enlightenment must be aware of this.

Christianity is divided into countless divisions but it pretends unity and ecumenism, even claiming to be the “origin of enlightenment as, without any doubts, there are humane aspects within Christian teachings. But to stress out such philanthropic wisdoms there is no need of any divinity but simply a sensitive and logical intellect is necessary.
Weakening of Christianity and the secularization facilitated the essential fundaments of enlightenment which slowly established itself by own power and intelligence, up to now, with modest influence.

Christians, like all other totalitarian systems, are claiming to stand for the “only true humanity” and they systematically lead objectivity, causality, logic and science ad absurdum, against the richness of life diversity and against true attentiveness.
Enlightened humanity, as an attentive humanity, has just a shadowy existence but it is there verifiably. For the enlightened human there is no question to take sides with humanity and, as far as possible, to come into the open without abrading himself senselessly or even carelessly. The world is needing prudent activists and no desperados.

May 29, 2018 was the tenth anniversary of the first publication of my admittedly exceptional Cosmonomical Bolg.
Heartfelt thanks to all companions!
May any longer even much more people over the world share stimuli and hopes with me.

Cosmonomy is describing enlightenment, is offering it as pleasure of thinking, recommends it as engagement for humane life and outlaws every war and every myth of nationalistic and “divine" election.

The Cosmonomic Manifesto is an invitation to all people really yearning for peace.
You can find the manifesto in the internet:

When it is getting ever darker again, there is still something to think it over.




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