"Intention"

There comes a time in one’s youthfulness that an internal necessity to express and reveal his intentions becomes self evident. Thought, in attempting to understand its self-awareness must always deal with the issues of language. There is a sense and experience of transcendence-beyond-language that must be overcome. In all of thought’s modes of experiences, logically there is a spectrum of pure passivity and pure activity. It is hard to be aware of either experience in its essence due to the nature of thought. Upon meditation, self-awareness and intention unify thought, in which passivity and activity become one. Yet, the laws of human nature are such that thought in the form of pure passivity becomes isolated in such a way that it must rely on its ability to “extend” itself in the form of thought/language in active terms. However, human nature and the laws of self-development or lack thereof leads most autonomous individuals to lose sight of experiencing and coming to understand the essence and the nature of oneself in its fullest experience. We are lead by our environment to assume the investigation of nature on corporeal terms, in which underdeveloped-thought must by nature extend itself to feel any social inclusion. “Modernity” and its aspirations have focused itself on positivist thinking and the virtues of autonomy and utility to such a degree that thought is lead to the experience of isolation before maturation. The modern individual averts its underdeveloped isolation becoming overtly active without investigating the essence of itself in its purest isolated form. To express myself in more “simple” words and phrases – the modernity project in Europe, from its birth in the 16th century “culminating” in the near future, in the American and the English speaking sphere has lead to a quantitative problem of mass proportions in which there are an over abundance of qualitatively underdeveloped autonomous “I’s”, on close to sub-atomic levels in which even the best physicists in the future may have a hard time being able to understand the nature of the physical world in all its manifestations especially on moral grounds. Youthful self-isolation to passively approach and understand the essence of things while conscious of the natural world, leads an individual to actively extend and reveal his will, in an attempt to transcend the boarders of modern isolation to come to terms with thought as a “we.”

The future necessity to understand the universe in a unified/moral way must be taken as a “present” imperative. I hope to elaborate on this topic in further detail later in my studies, but for now I believe it is important to define “intention.” One of the difficulties I have been taught to struggle with is the “amorality” of natural observations in modern society in the form of “science”. Not only has modernity created a world of creatures who are reduced to simple mechanisms of psychological control, the value or the lack there-of of “moral” obligation to nurture collective humanity, has sprung subconscious and at times unforgivable evil. I do not care to reflect on the topic of “justice” until the end of my studies, and upon further reflection there may not be a need to devote much attention to this topic, especially because forgiveness in loving-kindness is essential to redemption. But to forget the facts of historical development with a blind-eye is not the intention of my thinking. My intention is to understand the essence of modernity, in its positive and negative aspects, to move towards a new synthesis for a new enlightenment. In this blogI hope to develop a rational, scientific picture of our recent past, to appreciate “the freethinkers” who felt the ever present “Thou” of there revolutionizing secular project that has somehow collapsed into an “It” of grandiose proportions, a tremendum with certain roots that seem to be dormant still in the present.

Dialectical thinking is a natural process of thought that requires a thesis and antithesis to move towards a future. To be able to fully grasp the intention of the essence/prime-movers of the modern project in the 16th century, it is important to understand their negation of the medieval religious worldview. I do not find dialectical thought as having to slavishly follow events in some temporal linear ordering and that it is a process of dialogue between the thesis and antithesis that happens to cultivate a refined, avant-garde approach to the future. It is certainly ironic to be using a French phrase in this current expression of pure will. I must admit that “intention” in its purest form never exists in the human world and that if it did it would be worthy of “the divine.” However impure the human moral experience can be in the immutable laws of the physical world, to reduce and only study “selectively” without a willful, moral attempt in the form of “the” categorical imperative – imitatio Dei, leads to the pure disillusionment unworthy of being called the product of the Enlightenment. To even approach “the divine” or for there to be a reemergence of the divine imminence “in” the secular world, the individual must self-contemplate the definition of “divine” and “intention” on unitive terms. Only then can we judge with pure moral intention the worth of science, religion and its historical manifestations.

The complexity of my future investigation requires a haven to a degree. But there is no necessity in my isolation to request or desire changes of any sort. In time, I will, will myself in all hardship to amass “food and water” for my pursuit for survival. It is in this blog that I will elucidate, in an incomplete shape, my interests for study. Before I “reveal” my intentions of interest of further investigation, it is important that my intention is truly recognized. I do not want to contradict thought making itself a hypocrite. To avoid this, I must state that “utilitarian” ideals although novel to a degree is and cannot affect my intention. No matter how novel or base my thought maybe, my intentions are not for utility from others. No matter how hard thought tries, our humanness will go through a state of corruption in which the “Thou” of life becomes an “It”. Yet, this does not mean that revealing my intent is for a purpose that can be identified will an “it.” There is then an infinitesimal obligation for thought to understand the purpose to understand itself. In contemplation to understand itself and the why of its project to extend itself is how we begin to think philosophically. Philosophy does not begin with the fear of death and the need to transcend. Humans are by nature, like all living things in the natural world beings in the category of generated and corrupted things. There comes a time when we realize the state of corruption and this realization produces a call to love. Love not for the sake of trying to transcend the experience of corruption, and not for the sake of trying to fix the problems at hand, but because life is in its fullest when we experience and express our love. Philosophy begins in Love.