(October 25, 2022 at 8:11 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: On a personal note, I made a promise to my father that can only be fulfilled after he passes. And while I fully intend to honor that promise am I in truth so obligated?
Mentally we definitely have, or often try to maintain, a connection to the past, no matter how rational or not that may be. For instance there is perhaps no rational reason why we need graves for our passed loved ones, but there is certainly an emotional one... just trying to maintain some sort of link with that past. And to go and talk to a grave of a passed loved one is again perhaps not rational, but it can still be emotionally comforting. So as to the philosophy of it... your questions in this thread and above... that's still something to think on... but I can certainly understand the emotional side of it, and why even if there is no philosophical obligation (not going either way on that), there may still feel like there's an emotional one.
