Stirner---Universals

 

All this study of Max Stirner, made me receive a flash or hunch today about the nature of universals.

 

I thought it was original thinking of mine to link reason, thought and logic to spirituality. But these ideas are very old and thought of by others, including Plato.

 

If God exists, if the Good Spirits exist, if we have souls, and there is an afterlife, (God, spiritual entities and spirituality do exist.), then God as Logos or Spirit bringing Form-like structure and rules to the chaotic universe creating it by turning it into cosmos and order. Right there is the connection between spirituality and reason as ontologically existing and ontologically necessary reality; ergo, universals are real.

 

Now, let me qualify these remarks as theological, ethical, philosophical, ontological, and epistemological moderate.

 

Universals are real, but every generalization we hypothesize from our hunches, our experience or our logical arguments need not be real, true, accurate or useful.

 

Some of our universals may just be spooks in our minds, or be false, mistaken, fictional and artificial, or errors.

 

Stirner, the severe nominalist and strong skeptic, still deserves a seat at the table of reality, but he is more wrong than right about universals.