Benjamin Cain
1 min readMay 1, 2024

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I lay that out in numerous articles, linked below.

But basically, my concept of nature's monstrousness combines naturalism, pantheism, and cosmicism. The idea is that nature is negatively re-enchanted, based on the philosophical upshot of scientific objectifications since the natural order must then be "headless," as in godless, amoral, and foundationally absurd, but still self-creative. Nature is monstrous in being zombie-like.

Nature's monstrousness is also the foil for secular humanism and transhumanism.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/does-the-universe-have-a-character-89310a6534e7?sk=45b37717495e45aac297943a7fe5c834

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/why-you-should-be-haunted-by-natures-physicality-4d52310d0817?sk=e1407bef36888713f080746a51b4c7ba

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/decoding-the-cosmic-meaning-of-the-zombie-motif-28cf47d1b4de?sk=930a538451f13fc1a7715afb2a872c1a

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/can-we-intuit-the-meaning-of-natures-wild-creativity-a6dcbcdfcf4f?sk=45a2b14639bb1b1cb01279209af2f576

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-were-all-heroes-surrounded-by-monsters-3bc982caa3ce?sk=9ff4c9f028046e9afdfcec14ba5de0a7

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-natures-monstrousness-drives-human-progress-ce11407cbc86?sk=c6638b342efd2abf2854fb9e4a71cf4d

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/nature-is-a-haunted-house-and-scientists-posit-the-ghosts-fa181c88e428?sk=943fa9d4e07cb8d335a3912c732fdc26

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-dread-of-pantheistic-enlightenment-7c87c60e85bb?sk=158f8bc9a1463ac78475169ba7eb1454

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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