(August 25, 2023 at 6:35 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: I see no reason to believe anything has a natural telos, or if it does it can be known, or if known I should value it, or that I should care about human telos more than anything else.
But I do care, for reasons that are effectively self interest, in building a wonderful society where all can prosper.
I am a socially conscious, empathic, and political nihilist.
Yes, I think this is part of what makes us modern.
The post-Kantian recalibrations are largely about what a wonderful society would look like, in the absence of a knowable telos. Existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, surrealism, dadaism.