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Shakespeare is also about multiplicity. Multiplicity of Realities: realities as aspects of truth. Is the Enlightenment an aspect of Truth (or Darkening?) or/&? Is Nature absolute or multiple, radical or conservative, prudent or/&? For Burke a symbiotic relationship exists between Nature and the social, political order. It is therefore natural that the French Revolution be unnatural for him since the French philosophes and ideologues have broken the natural cycle of history by having “laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring, the revenue unpaid...the people impoverished...civil and military anarchy...everything human and divine sacrificed to the idol of public credit ...” (126). Anarchy for Burke is not Liberty. In his criticism, we witness Burke (unknowingly) suffering the ever- recurring dizziness caused by peripeteia. For Peripeteia represents multiplicity and Burke is incapable of conceiving multiplicity. Yet, as a transcendental materialist he is multiple (and blind to other realities).
Is God absolute or multiple? Since for Burke God is Absolute (he holds Truth and Freedom as Absolute values): he shrinks God by lowering him from his infinite and multiple omnipresent podium. God, for me, represents multiplicity of being, beyond the absolute, beyond Nature, beyond the Comprehensible and Incomprehensible 3⁄4 he is within and beyond the depths of my soul and nearly impossible to intellectualize and logolize for he
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