RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 20, 2021 at 12:35 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2021 at 12:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Wouldn't any reason for anything always be contingent? If, then. The basis of facts supplied informing the conclusion, and absent those particular facts, some other conclusion? Similarly, if camus is arguing anything, he's providing contingent reason, no?
I can think of circumstances where there would be no reason for life and no reason to live - but those circumstances don't align with the circumstances of this life. As far as use cases, the needfulness of a tool - I can see that a person might come through error or brute force to apprehend the world as though those contingent cases for not wanting to live or there being no reason to live or there being no reason for life are true.
We might then need an effective tool to break us out of that funk - but there's no requirement that the tools contents be accurate, or true - we're on to effectiveness at that point. If thinking that life is absurd helps us cope with something, or overcome a specific difficulty, that may not be contingent on the belief that life is absurd being true. The use case of "when there aren't reasons" being untrue as a circumstance insomuch as camus has offered a reason in that specific event.
Me, personally...lol, anything that gets people through the day, right? I don't think life is absurd, but I do think it can be difficult and unsatisfying. If by accepting the absurd a person can employ their greatest freedom, then they might have contingent reason to live in the absurdist world. Contingent on the value they place on freedom and the exercise of freedom. I think that if I did see life as absurd, I probably could be compelled by an argument like that. For a little giggle, it might be true even if the world -isn't- absurd. A person who sees as much and accepts it is certainly doing something I'm not free to do.
I can think of circumstances where there would be no reason for life and no reason to live - but those circumstances don't align with the circumstances of this life. As far as use cases, the needfulness of a tool - I can see that a person might come through error or brute force to apprehend the world as though those contingent cases for not wanting to live or there being no reason to live or there being no reason for life are true.
We might then need an effective tool to break us out of that funk - but there's no requirement that the tools contents be accurate, or true - we're on to effectiveness at that point. If thinking that life is absurd helps us cope with something, or overcome a specific difficulty, that may not be contingent on the belief that life is absurd being true. The use case of "when there aren't reasons" being untrue as a circumstance insomuch as camus has offered a reason in that specific event.
Me, personally...lol, anything that gets people through the day, right? I don't think life is absurd, but I do think it can be difficult and unsatisfying. If by accepting the absurd a person can employ their greatest freedom, then they might have contingent reason to live in the absurdist world. Contingent on the value they place on freedom and the exercise of freedom. I think that if I did see life as absurd, I probably could be compelled by an argument like that. For a little giggle, it might be true even if the world -isn't- absurd. A person who sees as much and accepts it is certainly doing something I'm not free to do.
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