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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: briskit who wrote (16332)	2/18/2004 5:09:15 PM
From: Solon	of 28931

"he thought we must supplant our parents (Father) by asserting ourselves as the cause of ourselves." This is not "causa sui", properly understood. This idea can be entertained as relative cause. But it originates from the concept of Ultimate "Cause"--or more properly...Ultimate Independence. "A question, then, is on what do we stand to be the cause (causa sui) of ourselves." The question is whether or not one is "self-caused". This has everything to do with the question of Will and the question of Responsibility. According to Spinoza...good and bad were relative--they were all expressions of God. Analyzing Freud does not inform the logical argument of Causa Sui. Existentialism may use the term to refer to the search for self and the presentation of self. But creating oneself through free will and choice is precisely the extension of causa sui. But it is an extension of an untrue premise. NOTHING is self-caused in the sense of being unconditioned. This is not incompatible with free will, IMO. We HAVE Free Will...we just do not have INFINITE WILL. Humans are finite.. All "parts" are finite.

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