The results of both human biological evolution and human cultural evolution are virtually symmetrical, divided into two non-identical but complementary halves that together form a whole. This is self-evident in looking at another person or in considering dialectic thought, which emerged in Greece, as it had to, in order for the Greeks to achieve sufficient enlightenment to discover Science and invent Democracy.
DIALECTIC SYNTHESIS
Dialectic Analysis involves the identification and juxtaposition of complementary opposites.
Dialectic Synthesis involves the identification of values and viewpoints that embrace both sides of the dialectic to yield transcendent values and viewpoints of the whole.
THE HUMAN DIALECTIC
The most self-evident dialectic on the individual front is that between men and women. The male-female dialectic provides only two choices, and one either sides with the men or the women. For many people, this is as far as it goes, trapped in a human half world.
The dialectic synthesis, of course, is found in the term "human" as this term embraces both sides of the dialectic and portrays the fact that men and women are actually complementary sides of the same thing, essentially a human deity in charge of human creation at the biological level on earth.
And so it goes in deriving the values of Science, Democracy and nascent Christianity from the values of western religious systems and eastern ethical systems.
The term "nascent" Christianity refers to the original version as taught by the first Christian, prior to its adulteration in 320 AD by the Roman emperor, Constantine, to produce an absolutist, self-righteous JudeoRomanism that has served to motivate western imperialism, colonialism and capitalism. Nascent Christianity began re-emerging after the Roman bishop's monstrous power grab over all of western Christendom in 1054 AD. It emerged among Christian mystics, mostly women, in revulsion at male corruption in the church and male notions of an external god. They initiated an approach to theology which ultimately contributed to the Renaissance, the many Reformations and the EuroAmerican Enlightenment, from Spinoza to Locke to Jefferson. One book that stands in honor of nascent Christianity is "Jefferson's Bible," entirely devoid of Old Testament self-righteousness and vengeance, entirely devoid of superstition and supernaturalism. One political document that stands in honor of nascent Christianity is Jefferson's Declaration of human rights, rights which have their roots in nascent Christianity.
Nascent Christianity is entirely scientific, its values being derived in precisely the same manner as the values of Science and Democracy. All it says is that compassion is the most divine and wisdom-laden bottom line for further thought. All it asks is that we think for ourselves, so we will learn to care for each other.
