Ontical being-there is scientifically discernable by those gifted with the wisdom that mediation in academic scientific study brings. Upon reaching the level of higher immediacy, one should look back not on the ecstasis of mediation and learning as we understand it in an everyday sense, but on the meaning of correlation and psychological apprehension betwixt lower immediacy and higher immediacy...
Lower immediacy are the ways of an uneducated child.
Higher immediacy is the way of Being-Towards-God of the master of his discipline.
Mediation is the intermediary "wooded path" leading from lower to higher states of understanding and being-in-the-world. Through mediation, one can turn our basic emotional state of being-there as we are as innocent children and aestheticize our base inclinations into something sophisticated with authentic intelligence. The intelligence of a master.
Does this transmutation of our pre-ontological understanding take one, through schooling, from slave to master? It's a question worth considering, even just in an ontical way. Nietzsche speaks a fair amount about the "lower" and "higher" states of morality and ways of being-in-the-world. He uses the conceptually biting criticism of the slave morality of the "Last Man" and compares it with the much maligned term "Ubermensch" or "Overman". Perhaps one can gain insight into existential ethics by putting Nietzsche's Master-Slave dichotomy in apposition to the aforementioned "Higher Immediacy" and "Lower Immediacy" states of Being-Towards-God outlined by Hegel.
Which brings us to "Mediation".
If one wishes to understand how to revolutionize slave values into masterful Dasein, one need not look any further than arduous study of Hegel's contribution to academia. According to many in intellectual and cultural circles, the sphere of influence brought about by the revolutionary thinking in Hegel's authorship and contribution to western civilization cannot be understated. Hegel made the World we understand today, both culturally and intellectually... I'd merely proffer the reader look into this Paleo-Hegelian influence seriously through studying the works of Hegel (esp. his Phenomenology...) not through contrite PHI 101 analytic quotations of his works coupled with apposite commentary from the textbooks, but -truly- by arduous reading of Hegel on his own terms.
This Being-Towards-God, by virtue of mediation in order to become a master of ones own fate freely, can be understood more readily by passionate living-alongside Hegel's dialectic in his incomparably influential works. Try reading every sentence of an entire work by Hegel, and the mediation I spoke of can be seen to de-limit the strictures of formal study.
By "Being-Alongside" Hegel's holy trinity, daseins can come to discover Being-Towards-God.
To wit,
Hegel organized many of his books into three parts.
Within those three parts, that are then, more or less, authored into three subsections.
Within those subsections,
We can see Hegel's use of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in more or less ahistorical ways.
This is the much maligned dialectic that Neo-Hegelians like Marx so abused, blasphemed and contorted to fit an historical interpretation of Hegel's contribution to ourselves and our society today. So try reading Hegel, cover to cover, page by page with a mediation in the works of Nietzsche yourself.
You may be surprised to find his dialectic to be more meaningful than any out-of-context analysis generally, in fact, is.
You can find his first and most important text for sale here: The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel
The idea of Being-Towards-God needs to be taken seriously by anyone engaged in any attempting to make valuations of the authority relegated to the "Intellectualatti" and "Culturalatti". There have been attempts by many to distort the traditions of Hegel and Academia in western civilization in the name of materialistic agnosticism or communism.
But this is a farce!
The indomitable will of the almighty God is the call of Jah.
Answer that call yourself,
and "Be-Towards-God" today!
TY
Brendan Hooker O'Connell
DDU 2021
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