My Thoughts On Dialetheia

 

If the dialetheists are correct, and true contradictions exist logically and metaphysically, then it could well be that this could serve as my definition of what moderation is and means. Ayn Rand and the Objectivists, with whom I share many common views, seem to deny that there are true contradictions logically, let alone existing in the world. I agree with them more than I disagree with them about the possibility of true contradictions being actual and correct, but somewhat I go against the Objectivists and admit with Graham Priest that some true contradictions exist and exert powerful influence in our lives.

As a kind of moderate who is self-styled, moderate, my stance on dialetheia is about their being less real and true than than as always real and true. Another way of stating this as a moderate is that backers of the Principle of Non-Contradiction mostly are accurate as they propose that the world is good, logical, true and metaphysically actual if contradictions are denied as false, wrong, bad, unreal and absurd. Some of the times the proponents of PNC are incorrect and mistaken: sometimes some contradictions are true, real and good, but most of the time consistency and logical coherence are reality, true and of immense value, a logical way of thinking both smart and morally noble.

God made humans, perhaps the most fantastic and startling living true contradiction imaginable. We are part beast and part angel. We are part animal and part rational angel. We are part devil and part virtuous noble angel. We are biological and animal, yet idealistic and rational. We are born selfless or selfish, but can learn to become morally reborn as unselfish, rational egoists who pursue our enlightened self-interest.

Our nature is dualistic: part animal and brain, and part soul and spirit. Each human is a flesh-and-blood living, breathing true contradiction, a false contradiction, a true consistency, a false consistence an evil contradiction, a good contradiction, an evil consistency and a nonevent consistency

We are a mess, but as individuals, we can be a glorious mess if we determine to self-realize and serve God. Think what thinkers and philosophers will do with this take of mine on human nature—both its flaws and potential--in future generations.