RE: Existentialism
March 19, 2022 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2022 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That would seem to fit with our commonly expressed intuition about moral desert. We tend to believe that between two people, one that the world has done much to in the sense of erecting barriers...and another that the world has done relatively less to in that same sense - having achieved identical outcomes, cannot be defined equivalently. That the definition of the former in some meaningful sense exhausts the definition of the latter and continues along from there. That the former deserves more of the positive consequences for that achievement, and deserves less of the negative consequences of having achieved it, than the latter might.
Do you think that's accurate with respect to an existentialist description of moral desert...and, if you do, do you think that there are any grey areas to address in order to make a strong claim to that effect beyond intuition, but described as or in-fact?
In a similar vein, how well delineated do you think facts-of are from as-facts...with respect to the purportedly irrational core of human human existence and meaning? To clarify, where would you put the line (or what examples might you have) of things that are facts-of human biology or psychology and things only treated as-fact pursuant to the same?
Do you think that's accurate with respect to an existentialist description of moral desert...and, if you do, do you think that there are any grey areas to address in order to make a strong claim to that effect beyond intuition, but described as or in-fact?
In a similar vein, how well delineated do you think facts-of are from as-facts...with respect to the purportedly irrational core of human human existence and meaning? To clarify, where would you put the line (or what examples might you have) of things that are facts-of human biology or psychology and things only treated as-fact pursuant to the same?
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