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Abstract: A further exploration of Bahá'í ontology: becoming and change; substance, soul, and identity; the nature of being and nothingness; time; the one and the many; the nature of things; what makes something real; social ontology; Buddhism and Hegel Notes: Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #60, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 26-29, 2005). See also Bahá'í Ontology Part One: An Initial Reconnaissance. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/60/kluge_ontology. |
Bahá'í Ontology, Part Two:
Further Explorations
by Ian Kluge
published in Lights of Irfan, Volume 7, pages 163-200Wilmette, IL: Irfan Colloquia, 2006
Abstract: In this paper/presentation, we shall continue our exploration of Bahá'í ontology that we began in "Bahá'í Ontology: An Initial Reconnaissance." We shall examine, among other things, issues related to becoming and change; substance, soul, self and identity; the nature of being and nothingness; time; the one and the many; the nature of 'things'; what makes something 'real'; social ontology and dialectic; and the order of knowledge and the order of being. On some of these issues we shall draw comparisons with other systems of thought such as are found in Buddhism and the works of Hegel.
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Introduction The Ubiquity of Change Change and Unchangeable Essences Being-with-Others The Thing-As-It-Is-In-Itself A Middle Path Between Substantialism and Nonsubstantialism Two Interpretations of the Continuum Resolving an Apparent Contradiction Dependent Origination and the Writings A Dynamic Interpretation of Substance Dependence and Independence Having “Intrinsic Entity” The Aristotelian Substratum Change and Order The Existence of Potentials The Ultimate “Object of Desire” Hegel, Dialectic and the Writings Dialectic in the Writings Actuality and Potentiality Self-Transcendence Potentials and Contradiction Hegel, the Unhappy Consciousness and Manifestations The Nature of Things The Quest for Unity The Nothingness Within The PSR and Its Idealist Consequences Varieties of Idealism The First Major Difference with Plato Natural Theology and Natural Law The Second Major Difference with Plato The Unknowability of God The Nothingness of God A Cautionary Note Social Dialectic Notes |
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