RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
March 12, 2013 at 12:38 am
Quote: Now that is incorrect. The linguistic, cultural, social, relligious and economic values and makeup are not automatic to a person but developed painstakingly over time through the sense perceptions. Even if you argue that they eventually become tied to those values, the very fact that sense perceptions can occur where they do not exist shows that it is not necessarily tied to them and therefore can be separated.
This is a very optimistic view of the intellectual project. In reality, no one can check every single aspect of everything that they believe, there is philosophy that is embedded into their thoughts and the final process of their very short stay on earth does not relate to the effort involved in transcending their cultural makeup. People are a product of their times.
You ever hear that Public Enemy song where Chuck D starts talking about fighting the power? I think that's what you need to do, you need to fight the power (of technocracy and its psuedo-religious claims to "objectivity"). I think the power is the "objective" knowledge of some people who use their power to rule others. Postmodernism is sort of a wacky movement, but I think there is some truth to it.
The powerful make a standard to call their understanding objective and make another standard to call others subjective. It is all rhetorical games. People are small, they can't know much. That is the way it is.
You have absolutely no reason to suppose that your faculties are reliable or that they represent anything remotely the way it corresponds to anything.
Would you see that a pig's sense perceptions are "objective"? What about a mosquitos? Is not the concept of objectivity just a way for one to value his opinions greater than enough?
