RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 4, 2019 at 3:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2019 at 3:22 pm by Acrobat.)
(April 4, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote:(April 4, 2019 at 2:43 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Who says? Is truth some sort of cold hard facts of the world, absent of any aesthetic quality? It seems to be that in order for man to desire truth, Truth has to be something desirable. It has to be a thing of beauty, for us to desire to know it.
As i recall you believe in objective morality, in moral truths. Yet moral truths are fundamentally aesthetic in nature. They are which move us to act, absent of their beauty we wouldn't be able see them at all.
Do you think beauty you see in things like kindness, in goodness, is just purely in your head, and not in the reality outside it? That beauty of kindness is something you give to a thing, and not a possession of that which is being observed?
Truth can be beautiful or not, as Gae Bolga pointed out. Thus truth does not equal beauty.
I do think there are moral truths, but they are moral because they are truths, not because they are necessarily beautiful.
I do not trust my emotional reactions since I know they have been heavily conditioned. Advertisers spend millions to promote associative thinking. But appearances can be deceptive.
I don’t know about your specific emotional reaction, but some truths are aesthetic in nature, moral truths being one such example.
Even the common claim of atheists here, that they desire truth, can only be true, if truth is something ultimately desirable. There has to be something that draws us to it, to provoke us to seek it. Or else you’re just seeking the feeling of truthiness than truth itself