If culture is an organization of ideas, where does philosophy fit into it?
Philosophy is a systematic look at or overview of a thing or event. It’s one grouping of ideas within a culture. We call it a “discipline.”
The emphasis is on the systematic approach to the work and the umbrageousness of the view taken. (1)
But there could be a philosophy of any thing or event. Be that as it may, it would remain only an element of a culture, along with arts, sciences, technologies, religions, etc.
To give an idea of philosophical change, in my doctoral History dissertation I outlined a 19th-Century philosophy I called “creative repression” – the idea that we grow by denying ourselves. (2)
If we gave vent to our emotions, especially if we became hysterical, we might faint because our energy systems were deemed to be closed and fixed. If we bled off energy in one way, we were thought to suffer a deficiency in another.
I was writing in a time of creative expression – the 60s and early 70s. According to that philosophy we grew by expressing ourselves. We were all about letting it all hang out, getting real, telling it like it is, etc.
Now, if I was to give a name to this era’s paradigm, it’d be “creative service.”
The lightworkers who came here came to serve Gaia’s Ascension.
Creative servants need to watch what they say rather than letting it all hang out. They’re dealing with the whole world and know the potential for misunderstandings. Diplomacy, prudence, and kindness are required.
We’re system busting as they were in the Sixties but we’re doing so focused on restoring unity not on defeating an enemy.
Over the years on this site, (I hope) we here have been developing a creative-service philosophy to help with that work.
Whom we serve is the Divine Mother. The Father is inactive in material terms. The Mother and Father are simply illusory faces of God, the One.
If we believe we’re this body, we won’t be able to see and hear the Mother. Even if we heard, we probably wouldn’t believe what we heard.
The Mother is all we’ll ever know as long as we’re incarnate. Everyone who serves the unseens in actuality serves her.
So creative service is my New Philosophy. And I’m learning on the job.
Footnotes
(1) Anthropologist Leslie White discerns three types of scholarly argumentation: the historical, the structural and the evolutionary. The historical looks at discrete events through discrete time and space. The structural stops the action and looks at the structures that make up the whole and their functions. The evolutionary looks at classes of events through non-discrete time. See Leslie White, The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1949 and Leslie A. White, The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome. New York, etc.: McGraw Hill, 1959.
(2) The Bad Tobacco of the Mind: Cultural-Historical Aspects of the Fiction Question, 1867-1897. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, submitted 1976. (Judged to be “not historical.”)
Canadian historian Michael Bliss was the first to use the phrase “creative repression” in Michael Bliss, ““Pure Books on Avoided Subjects”: Pre-Freudian Sexual Ideas in Canada,” Canadian Historical Association Historical Papers, 1970, Volume 5, No. 1, 1970 at https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/hp/1970-v5-n1-hp1105/030725ar/, 101.