From Nihilism to Kingdom Come :: Philosophy Theology Religion Papers

The Final item of Mankinds Education From Nihilism to Kingdom Come epitome I give reasons to believe that our present situation is not as bleak as some would have it. I show how the historic process apprize be understood in terms of a Premodernity (Aquinas), contemporaneity (Hegel), and Postmodernity (Nietzsche) division of merciful history. I argue that both Hegel and Nietzsche were full aware that modernness was over and that a negative Postmodern fountain was to necessarily precede a consummatory positive one. Also since history may be taken to have reached its goal at the end of Modernity (with Reasons grasp of Christianitys principle), Postmodernity can best be understood in terms of its central task of elevating all humanity into dictatorial keen (the knowing of the divinity fudge within)an elevation via Reason and Faith achievable just now by the abolition of the God outdoor(a), i.e., by a negative followed by a positive period of history, which Schelling refers t o as the Church of John, a entailment of Catholicism and Protestantism, the perfected Church. IntroductionMy thesis, in brief, is that the painful God is shortly period of history we are presently going through can best be understood as a requirement transitional period the immediate consequence of mankinds intellectual advance, in the preceding period, viz., the Modern or long time of Reason, beyond the Middle Ages, the Age of Belief. With the apotheosis of the development of the principle of subjectivity in Modern philosophy, i.e., with the attainmeUnprioritized SDO meetingnt of absolute knowing, or Reasons knowing of the absolute, humanity had outgrown its former path of relating to substance, the divine its eyes opened, it could not go backwards unless merely forward. From the highest standpoint, it can be said that the movement of history is from the God outside to the God inside an inversion process involving three distinct and necessary phases Premodernity, Modernity, and Postmodernity, to be correlated with Thomas Aquinas, Hegel, and Nietzsche, respectively.It appears that as a result of Modernitys, i.e. Hegels, intellectual achievement in which religion was superseded by philosophy, i.e., Wissenschaft or scholarship religion had of necessity to undergo a major crisis. That is, a God is dead period of (post-) history had to supervene. However this negative period is in no way to be regarded as final or terminal, but instead as the necessary precondition for a positive, consummatory period of human history, its finale, a period in which, in Schellings words, the unification of philosophy, science, and religion will be realized.