{"id":6379,"date":"2016-06-08T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/god-and-the-transcendental-ego\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T05:40:33","slug":"god-and-the-transcendental-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/god-and-the-transcendental-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"God and the Transcendental Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Husserl<\/a>God does what Husserl's transcendental ego wanted to do but couldn't pull off, namely, constitute beings not as mere unities of sense, but as beings<\/em>, as "independent reals" to borrow a phrase from Josiah Royce.  Husserl's transcendental idealism never gets the length of Sein<\/em>; it reaches only as far as Seinsinn<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This leads us to perhaps the ultimate paradox of divine creation.  God freely creates beings that are both (i) wholly dependent on God's creative activity at every moment for their existence, and yet (ii) beings in their own own right, not merely intentional objects of the divine mind.  The extreme case of this is God's free creation of finite minds, finite subjects, finite unities of consciousness and self-consciousness, finite centers of inviolable inwardness, finite free agents, finite free agents with the power to refuse their own good, their own happiness, and to defy the nature of reality.  God creates potential rebels.  He creates Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus.  He creates Lucifer the light bearer who, blinded by his own light, refuses to acknowledge the source of his light, and would be that source even though the project of becoming the source of his own light is doomed to failure, and he knows it, but pursues it anyway.  Lucifer as the father of all perversity.<\/span><\/p>\n

God creates and sustains, moment by moment, an other mind, like unto his own, made in his image, who is yet radically other in its inwardness and freedom.  How is this conceivable?  <\/span><\/p>\n

We are not objects for the divine subject, but subjects in our own right.  How can we understand creation ex nihilo<\/em>, together with moment by moment conservation, of a genuine subject, a genuine mind with intellect and free will?<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the mystery of divine creation.  It is is above my pay grade.  And yours too.<\/span><\/p>\n

God can do it but we can't.  We can't even understand how God could do it.  A double infirmity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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God does what Husserl's transcendental ego wanted to do but couldn't pull off, namely, constitute beings not as mere unities of sense, but as beings, as "independent reals" to borrow a phrase from Josiah Royce.  Husserl's transcendental idealism never gets the length of Sein; it reaches only as far as Seinsinn. This leads us to … Continue reading “God and the Transcendental Ego”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,143,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existence","category-god","category-husserl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}