The theory of original nature (Unification Thought) / The nature of the true self, its place in...
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The Theory of Original Human Nature is traditionally related to categories of being and in many cases to Metaphysics. Throughout history many have examined human nature as questions of existence and secondly, as the problems of relationship. Buddha, Christ, Socrates, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard and many others, have undertaken tasks like this. Today there are also animated discussions lying along the lines of psychological self-actualization and attachment theories. Of late therefore, psychological proponents have added to the groundswell of thinking, concerning existence, being, and the relational field. It is notable that transpersonal psychologies frequently touch upon theories of a true self. The Theory of Original Being, here proposed by Sang Hun Lee, nevertheless focuses on this topic more exclusively from the field of religious philosophy.
Rather than posit purely philosophical arguments however, The Theory of Original Nature is metaphysical in its dimensions, yet pragmatic in its approach. The self as a fulcrum of consciousness is therefore proposed as a matrix of conscious expressions and behaviors. The Theory of Original Nature therefore extends from a theoretical proposition to forms of broad creativity concretely expressed by a true self, in the arts, sciences, philosophy, ethics and social morality. The first principle to be established belongs to the ethical structures of the self. The second belongs to virtuous behaviors expressed in the social political and cultural fields.
This true self is tied organically to the democratic world within principles of natural law; the rights of man extrapolated from innate states and metaphysical postulates. Systems theories including the psyche and constitutions are organic by nature, either functioning authentically by natural law or by the dysfunctional self and proliferated as theories and practices of a dystopian dimension. It is therefore important to come to terms with achievable states of optimum health. Essential to this proposition is that self or system, be it family, social or political, be marked throughout by, ‘concern-consciousness.’ Lying close to the Theory of the Original Image (Logos) and Ontology, this hypothesis is extracted from Logos. This theory of Original nature is therefore tied to a philosophy of Monism and to a grand theory of unification, a systems theory well worth considering in the light of today’s confusion. At the end of this section, some existentialists are reconsidered from the perspective of the work. The full text can be found here: http://www.unification-thought.org/neut/Neut03.html
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theory of original nature
derek dey
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indextheory of the original human nature
• a being with divine image
• a being with divine character
• a being with position
• conclusion
• an appraisal of the existentialist analysis of human existence
http://www.unification-thought.org/neut/Neut03.html
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intro: ontology existentialism alienation ?
• Buddha Jesus Socrates Aquinas Descartes Kant Hegel Kierkegaard Feuerbach Marx Scheler-(3 categories)
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theory of the original human nature
• fall / pathologies
• pre-fall natural condition
• original image - ontology
• divine image-divine character
• resemblance and position
?
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a being with divine image
• a united being of sungsang and hyungsang
• extracted from the universal o rd e r- e n c a p s u l a t i o n o f elements - microcosm
• current failure to actualize the original relationship: spirit mind <> physical mind
• C o n f u c i u s a n d K a n t - cultivation of character
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a harmonious being of yin and yang
• yin and yang
husband wifemature self as a
precondition
creation in harmony
‘full immanence’
love and orderethics-virtues
rational
intuitive
1. dual characteristics2. union3. represent world4. represent family
self
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various forms of harmony
• completion @ stage 3• husband/wife: dual-characteristics • unity of humankind; socio-politico• ecology - self to cosmos
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a being of individuality• universal-individual
image
• identity at conception - unique
• intrauterine - nature - stages - value
• nurture supports or conflates
• Joy in expression and fulfillment
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a being with divine character • omniscience, omnipotence, heart (love),
omnipresence, life, truth, goodness, beauty, righteousness, logos, creativity,
• a being of heart - shimjungand heart
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expressions of heart
good-ness
will
heart
emotion
beauty
intellect
truthculture
value
function of mind
the relationship between mind value
and culture centered on heart
personal / cultural spheres
sciencephilosophy
artethics
morality
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a being of logos
• being of logos
• true self
• logos creativity
• 2 stage creativity
Confucius said in The Analects, “At seventy I followed my heart’s desire without over-stepping the line.”
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a being of creativity: logos
• Logos as self and creativity
• 2 stage development
• define purpose need or intention(heart), research-plan-select best idea, build, test, evaluate, improve
idea intention heart purpose / shimjung / “unchanging values”
pre-Logossubliminal/reconsideration
blueprint
plan+material+build
substance: art science artifacts
ISS IHS
SS HS
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a being of creativity: science
• “dominion”
• anatomy
• biology
• neuroscience
• astronomy
• physics
• chemistry
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a being of creativity: art• “creativity” / art / music / poetry / sculpture / architecture / cinema / performance / dance
Millet: the gleaners
Vermeer: girl with the pearl earring
Chihuly: glass sculpture
dance / performance art
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ecology • ‘dominion’ as deep ecology / nature
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• subject and object - relationships
• object consciousness as ethics
• obedience filial humility
• object position - object consciousness - loyalty
• subject position - dominion over all things
a being with position
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subject position• subject consciousness
• family - Confucian - respect
• leadership and concern
• authority and love / love and order
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connected being consciousness and democracy
judicial legislative executive
transcendent principle
people and agreement
connected body / object consciousness / John Locke 1632-1704 / equality-human rights / constitution
socio-politico organizations
• allegory of the cave• ideas / archetypes• the republic• laws(historically premature ?)
God
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natural law• equality before god
• stoics
• democracy as object consciousness
• Locke: ‘Second Treatise Concerning Civil Government’ - George Mason, Thomas Paine, James Madison etc
• love and order
• way of heaven
processive?
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conclusion
• original human being SS and HS
• harmony of man woman
• original human being
• divine character and logos
• creativity - heart-centered ruler of all things
• a being with position
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• Soren Kierkegaard
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Karl Jaspers
• Martin Heidegger
• Jean Paul Sartre
Appraisals: existentialism
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end
• end of section 3
• next axiology
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