Yea!

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The affirmation of the "Yea-of-life" begins without truly comprehending the essence of lived-life in the "Yea". We first begin the process of coming to know "the world" by first negating the universal particulars in the material realm. The negation of the "Nought" is the first instance of self-consciousness and the experience of radical separate-ness from everything beyond the Mind. It is a process of exclusivity-in-isolation from all that exists outside of oneself, that results to a bursting forth of creativity to unify with "others" who have already affirmed the Yea-of life. We continuously live life towards the future in freedom of the nought by its negation, but ever so difficultly try to affirm the Yea by trying to comprehend the past.


The present experience of life reveals the future light of the Self coming to behold the world in realization of the language of philosophy and the logic that it entails. The past is now the nought that once had the blind-self chained to the wall of the cave, that the Self negates towards the light - that is towards the "Yea-of-life."

Objective of "the collective"

Objective of "the collective"


Once self consciousness is actualized the self must account for the process of the actual present with a view towards the future. The present situation like any observation of “the current” is a subjective interpretation of the constructive narrative of the past [this is true both for the self and for the collective]. Due to the multiplicity of viable interpretations it is necessary to construct an intellectual identity of “a collective self” to struggle with the present situation. Therefore, to cognize “the current situation” as objectively as possible must be a present imperative for creating a viable future for both the Self and the collective.  To the contemplative mind, the ever-so-present future, must be idealized not as an unattainable transcendent world of pure forms, but as a concrete and practical transition from a realistic present towards a “realistic” future.  


The Will to understand
In the present, the Self is conscious of its own being in its full potentiality not knowing where to turn but to express its “own Will” in pure expression of both confusion and in magnanimity. The false dichotomy between knowing and not knowing causes the confusion and grandiosity of the vision at hand. What is internal to the Self seems so subjectively real beyond doubt. However there cannot be a disregard of the external world and the necessities of the Self (as a body that is part of the world), to survive and someday flourish. To do so, the Will must overcome the obstacles both from within and from without, to come to terms with an inner-self that is radically and characteristically different to the outer self. The world that the Self beholds in his own conscious calls to find others, while constructively learning to use the appropriate "logic" through the faculties of reason.

The Practical Self

“The Self” in the process of actualization must overcome the multiplicity contained within “the All.” However, the self must also come to terms with the fact that the objectivity of the All is never attainable by an autonomous “I” and its subjective perspective. To come to terms with a viable and truthful inter-subjectivity is necessary to understand the self in relation to “the other(s)”.

Aristotle begins his Politics by stating the famous statement: “humans are by nature political animals.” The self as “mind”, maybe able to approximate the transcendent world of Being through reason, but as body and will, we are confined and challenged by the devastating multiplicity that is the world. How we create and interpret through reason, a symbiosis between the world of the mind and the world of the plastic, is the telos of philosophy. To think philosophically becomes practical in that the Self has to account for the necessities of the body in a world ever so chaotic in its current form.

To understand and be cognizant of the historical actuality and the systematization and its process of becoming is a necessity of the individual that stands isolated in self-consciousness of the All that exists. Once the path of the Self in continuity to the historical process is made aware through self consciousness, a viable interpretation of the present towards an idealistic future is needed. The reflection of the Self and the idealistic world of fully actualizing its potentialities towards “Being” is also the same path towards the collective goal of trying to make the multiplicity of the world into a more uniform whole. The goal of the future must account for the history but must creatively apply the current situation towards coming to a viable self realization that is definable to the Self identity in relation to the All.