n-Financial Theology: The Ideal, Ideologies and Technical Realisations

1. The Ideal. The ideal comes from nowhere in particular, that is, in a completely isomorphic universe, we assume that no matter how peculiarly particular the circumstances, all those circumstances including the observer of the observed are governed by the same set of laws, which we call altogether, the Law only for convenience since we would certainly meet our end before enumerating all the manifestations of particulars for any arbitrary given conditions within the observable universe. We cannot even begin to imagine that there is something beyond this conceptualisation without appealing to a theology based on inconsistency and the apoira (awe) of the utter incomprehensibility of the particular. It is at this edge that the Individual is ultimately protected not by the natural forces which condemn him or her to a non-infinite interval, but extended beyond the claim of any physics that such Individual exists and SHOULD exist against any and all claims to the contrary. This assertion of personal existence cannot be justified in principle by physics, and is as Aristotle would have probably agreed an object of "practical knowledge"' ie how we are to conduct ourselves as individuals grounded in the IDEALS of virtuous conduct. The anthropologists may tell us that the conduct and behaviours of humans is so varied that there is no one set of beliefs or conventions that are prevalent throughout humanity. Again, this is an argument of ideology and does not resolve into contradiction or throw the burden of proof against those who would assert the existence of the individual as a matter of the ideal. The arguments against the "should" accuse its proponents of arbitrary determination and therefore, "unscientific" in the sense of vaguely formulated or unrealisable. But again, these arguments do not negate the assertion of individual existence. Whatever arguments we have against the Ideal are at different levels of manifestation: (1) the ideological and (2) the technical realisation of the ideal.

2. The Ideological. The ideology is simply "a matter of interpretation." The weaker the premises, the more EXPRESSIVE and INCLUSIVE the interpretation. The ideology is a matter of preference, expression, multiple forms. In many ways, it is of many views. But these many views do not negate the Ideal. They enhance it by providing contextual explanations. It is a basic philosophical error to confuse the Ideal with Ideology. VERY LITTLE IS AT STAKE to choose one ideology over another. It is the realisation of the Ideal which is of utmost importance since it is the realisation-of-truth beyond any ideological consistency that reaches into the Ideal.

3. Technical Realisations. The technical realisation of any particular Ideal is not essential to the existence of the Ideal since the ultimate realisation of Ideals may include their unconscious evolution. No technical realisation is sufficient or necessary to meet the Ideal. qua Ideal. But here is where the fun starts: many languages, many logics, algebras and geometries--all qua Ideal.