Materialism and Man

Materialism denies the Invisible

Materialism is an incoherent stance for man. This is true for man’s most basic perceptual tool is the recognition of unities/identities/immaterial realities by the senses for serving some higher purpose which binds matter together; I.e. a chair is really a chair, though it is made up of atoms/matter for it serves the function of sitting (some thing really is some thing because it serves some good.) One may find this claim absurd because of a type of metaphysical allergy produced by materialist presuppositions but I will demonstrate why such beliefs have preposterous ends.

On Man’s Inherent Recognition of Unities

First, we must acknowledge that a sense of unities is inherent to man. Think for a moment if you have met a man without this sense. I have met many rocks that do not have this sense, but no man.

On Unities’ Non-Existence and the Dead Man as Sane

Second, we must, for the moment, grant the materialist claim that such unities are not real. Quickly, we will find that all men are very mistaken in their quest for reality. If we have agreed that such a quality as identity/unity recognition is essential to all men, and yet such a quality is necessarily delusional, can we, as men, have hope to be sane?

Perhaps so if what you mean by sanity is death. It would seem a corpse possesses true sanity because a corpse does not have the ability to see unities. In fact, its very own material unity has begun to fall apart which is “most acceptable” because, according to the materialist, this unity was a falsehood in the first place. But this seems unacceptable as no man would say a true man is a corpse.

Result

And so if materialism is true, our inherent insanity would prevent us from grasping it as true; no, anything as true. Thus, materialism is beyond the reach of man.