(October 24, 2021 at 6:18 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(October 22, 2021 at 5:04 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: What does interest me is how there can be any "meaningful" relationships in the sense of warranted correspondence between our semiotics-based understanding of the world and physical reality.
(October 23, 2021 at 10:34 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Without the resurrection+, life doesn't have any meaning.
… Whatever value worth or meaning it has is given to it by some other thing, some afterlife. One wonders why or how an afterlife would have meaning, or grant meaning to life, if life has no meaning itself,…
Well, @snowtracks, is not correct. The lives of the dead can have meaning. It’s just that people have to be alive to enjoy that significance. He makes the same mistake that nihilists do – confusing the enjoyments of life from any meaning(s) it may have. For example, married sex is pleasuarable. For some however, physical intimacy is interpreted as a sign of intangibles like commitment and affection within the relationship.
The meaning of a sign is found in the relationship between the sign and what the sign signifies. The meaning of a painting is not inherent in the canvas or colored globs; but rather, by reference to something external to it, i.e. the subject matter depicted. So when someone asks what the meaning of life is, he or she isn’t just looking to something within life that makes life worth living. Instead they are asking to participate in a relationship with something larger to which their lives refer.
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