On Mervyn's response to TobinRe: BHA: The "Eastern" philosophy aspect

[Gary Maclennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> But then, in addition to spirit or God as the ultimate transcendent
> reality in this sense, you have (p.50) *deities* and avatars -
> manifestations and embodiments of God eg personal lords such as Krishna
> or Jesus. No monotheism here! Rather absolute spirit underlies and
> informs all monotheisms and polytheisms - religious pluralism - (forming
> a basis for possible religious unity, consistent I think with much
> modern theological thinking). And then you have many other levels of
> transcendent being - angels, human souls, etc etc. All in a stratified
> differentiated open expanding totality (stratified monism), informed and
> sustained by spirit, which is the cosmos...
>
> Mervyn
Mervyn,

This was all wonderfully clear!  Does it not then make the case for Bhaskar
as an objective idealist irrefutable?

Of course there is the nagging problem of what precisely is idealist about
objective idealism.  As far as I am capable of understanding it, objective
idealism suggests the primacy of spirit over matter - In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God and God was the Word"  (if I recall
correctly).  For me the difficulty lies in how we conceptualize god. Some
versions have him (sic) as very material surely.

An allied problem with FEW is how much can we know by reason.  I am
inclined to think that the "proofs"  in FEW for God and reincarnation work
no better than such proofs ever have.  I think it is a pointless exercise
frankly.

regards

Gary



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