work in progress
A Cosmology of Mononaturalism1
Mono-naturalism is a belief that there can be only one
all-inclusive ultimate nature or reality, which may contain divine beings (God,
gods, demigods, saints…) but it is not a divine being itself. This means that the mono-nature is beyond
being a god, in this sense it is a Transtheism.
My personal position on Mono-naturalism is as follows; a simultaneous relativistic neutral freely existing perpetually changing natural monism:
It is a simultaneous monism nether the whole or parts have absolute
priority over each other. It is
relativistic in that all things within it are relative to reach other and the
whole. It is neutral in that it has an
absolutely simple single neutral fundamental relative substance, which is not completely
given to being any one type of substance.
It freely exists in that it ‘just is’ without depending on something to
cause it, it did not cause itself or was it caused by something other than
itself. It is perpetually changing in
that change is the fundamental process of its existence, by changing into something
similar itself. It is a natural monism
in that it is the only all-inclusive ultimate reality, which may contain divine
beings.
Descriptive look at my Mono-naturalism, It is a simultaneous
monism by holding the position that nether the whole or parts has absolute
priority over each other; each is the source of the other. This means that no whole (cosmos) exist
completely absent of part(s) and no part(s) exist completely separate from a
whole, the whole and the parts are impossible without each other. Or stated simply, no cosmos can exist without
parts and no cosmic parts can exist completely separate from the cosmos, both
depend on each other for their existence simultaneously. If one accepts the big
bang theory, the universe starts as an infinitely small singularity that expands
into a universe with its own proper parts.
Simultaneous monism assumes that the parts and the whole are simultaneous
reciprocal components of a single reality (monism); this view does not
contradict the big bang theory. If on the other hand one accepts creation out
of nothing theory, whether by divine being or as an occurrence of nature, the
nothing is a simple or single reality where the whole and the part are
simultaneously the same reality and equally what is created out of nothing is
something that can have parts and a whole simultaneously as derived from its
source, nothingness. Simultaneous monism
does not contradict the creation from nothing theory.
It has four categories of reality. Fundamental reality is whatever the source
reality is; in this case the monism itself as the genesis of all other
realities. Direct reality is whatever an
actuality is, which in this case is anything in the temporal present. Indirect reality is whatever is possible,
which in this case is anything in the temporal past or future. Abdirect reality is whatever a governing
principle is, which in this case is anything’s propensity and or destiny.
Notes:
1.
Mononaturalism is a word that seems to fit the combined
thoughts of Anaximander of Miletus, C. S.
Peirce and Albert Einstein.
