New question: Are we human beings living a spiritual experience or spiritual beings having a human experience? Unless it is both at once?
Quoting Teilhard de Chardin
Beautiful issue. It remains to say what is the problem - and challenge what is behind.
A - If we are spiritual beings and humans incidentally (because I would assume spiritual even if you do not live this "human experience"), then the issue is whether it is a chance or misfortune to live this humanity.
Two examples:
- The myth of the Phaedrus (Plato): souls were endowed with wings, not their body flying in the sky until they commit mistakes that have precipitated on earth. There they are "fallen" in the body, and they thus remain, trapped and deprived of wings, in what we would call on us' human experience. It is a misfortune.
- Jesus Christ, God became man to redeem the sins of mankind. Here, a pure spirituality has chosen the human destiny. Like Jesus we are on earth - with our destiny of man - to our salvation.
-> The issue is the price to pay if we accept that we are spiritual beings that it accrues to live a human experience. And that price, as shown by our two examples is the dualism: we are primarily a soul - and then we are a soul incarnated (according to Genesis, in creation God has modeled a statue of clay (body) and he has breathed life (divine soul).
B - If we are spiritual beings and incidentally, while we are animals, among others, we can well do without this soul and this "spirit" without ceasing to be men. It the idea that boosted the creationists when they realized that this was the message of Darwin.
All time: we are told: " spiritual experience, which is consistent with something like a future. So does one speak of an evolution of humanity outside the process of man would have led mankind on the path of civilization. This is the Hegelian conception of history - but this is also the source of the pessimism of Rousseau: Man is a spiritual being? Yes, but " man who meditates is a depraved animal " ...
As we can see the price here is the responsibility of evil. And not by some unknown myth more or less credible (which I think is the original sin) by the daily decision to be more not a man but a man least (Merleau-Ponty).
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