RE: God as a metaphor/concept
May 17, 2012 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2012 at 5:26 pm by Tempus.)
(May 17, 2012 at 5:06 pm)warrenmi Wrote: But...in the same manner that we some declare/assume that beauty and love exist
I don't declare or assume that. Not in the sense you seem to be saying here. You seem to be saying we believe love and beauty exist independent of our own experience. I disagree with this. I see love as a complex set of feelings toward someone or something. Love is a label - it describes something, it doesn't actually exist itself. Similar with beauty; it's a subjective value judgement. Different cultures find different things beautiful. That's not to say the won't be any universals - most cultures probably won't find rotting corpses beautiful, for example. I'd suggest that's not due to them all appealing to some sort of external standard of beauty, but rather to a common internal one they share with the rest of their species.
By the way, if that's not what you're suggesting then I apologise.
