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The "Real Question" of Meta-Physics-What is "Being Human" Reality?: Pre-Axial Being with "Thou"-vs-Post-Human Knowing about "It"

The "Real Question" of Meta-Physics-What is "Being Human" Reality?: Pre-Axial Being with "Thou"-vs-Post-Human Knowing about "It"

Killingsworth, Jerry Lacony

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1478283548
ISBN13: 9781478283546
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2012
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This book traces the nature of human existence from the Pre-Axial Age (Visions of Being)-to-the Post-Human Era (Versions of Knowing). Two impulses are identified, natural & organic based on sensing, feeling, seeing & being, & techne truthbased on believing, thinking, having, & knowing. Three major obsessions are identified, the axial sensibility focus on living in but not being of this world, the ego-identity, the individual as a separate entity, and the technological imperative that everything, including human life- existence, has a conceptual, technical and rational base discovered and known in a pure thought context, beyond nature & earth and outside of human experience. The book focuses on the primary Question of Meta-Physics - What is being human reality? and offers antidotes for the abstract-artificial diseaseof teknosis the state of being that eliminates the natural-organic and human experience. The fundamental difference in the Pre-Axial age and the New Singularity or post-human era is that the old, oral and intuitive-spiritual primitives & natives saw & felt nature as a Thou being- divine and sacred, but in the Post-Human era, nature is thought to be an It to be known in an abstract-artificial way. This new reality is hardly related to the question of being-human reality which is a sensing, feeling, seeing, and being real experience. This is not a part of the symbiotic relationship of human and ultra-computer. Some antidotes are prescribed to help bring the two impulses back into balance & harmony & to restore the inherent organic-natural connectedness of the old symbiosis of human, nature, earth, mind, spirit, and experience which was the basis of being human reality, that is, a human being, being humanly connected to the organic- natural impulse of mindfully living here and now in this world and of this world. The First Question of Meta-Physics must be What is Being Human Reality, ? and this is a Being experience not a Knowing answer.

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