RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 5, 2019 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2019 at 11:12 am by Anomalocaris.)
No, I would not let you take my life because that ends my survival.
Had only meaning been involved I would be indifferent to your taking my life.
People are indeed plagued by the idea of meaning. The operative word is plague. It is a widespread affliction to which we are susceptible, but for whose ill effects remedies and cures of various effectiveness are available. A particularly good one is a effective method for deducing and understanding how reality operates and interacts with us. Just as being diseased is not the goal in life, nor is meaning the goal in life. Just as disease is deemed so because it is often a barrier to more fundamental goals of life, so often is the idea of meaning.
Had only meaning been involved I would be indifferent to your taking my life.
People are indeed plagued by the idea of meaning. The operative word is plague. It is a widespread affliction to which we are susceptible, but for whose ill effects remedies and cures of various effectiveness are available. A particularly good one is a effective method for deducing and understanding how reality operates and interacts with us. Just as being diseased is not the goal in life, nor is meaning the goal in life. Just as disease is deemed so because it is often a barrier to more fundamental goals of life, so often is the idea of meaning.
