Philosophy

The philosophy of the Brightside Theogony.

There are specific motivations behind this philosophy. First, to bring reason to the experiences of the divine that many have had. The fact that many have had religious experiences is obvious. The challenge is to integrate it into a larger worldview. Second, to modernize the grand philosophical system of late antiquity neoplatonism. Neoplatonism, prior to Christian domination, was an elaborate philosophical system that constructively built upon the entire inheritance of Greek and Roman thought, as well as pieces from other places, such as Egypt and Southeast Asia. The goal is to do similarly, engaging in the nearly two-thousand years of dialogue since then to modernize and improve upon neoplatonism. Lastly, to reflect our intuitions regarding religion. We are radically pluralist regarding the existence of the gods and religious experiences and believe the gods to be genuinely real.

The Spheres
There has always already been chaos. Chaos, or nothing-in-particular, necessarily gives way to something-in-particular. This is affirmed in myths and philosophies all over the world. We will call the something-in-particular the world-sphere.

The world-sphere contains all that is real. We use the term "world-sphere" is a philosophical category and as illuminating imagery.

The world-sphere contains three categories: Divine, Intensive, and Actual.

The Divine sphere is generated first. It contains everything, all at once.