(October 30, 2012 at 11:13 am)Rhythm Wrote: Hey Mystic...from what I gather you very much feel (or hope, or desire, or whatever) for "praise" to be something objective (specifically objective in the way you use the word). Presumably so that you will have a solid way to measure things relative praise, or worth that does not boil down to "because I say so"....but consider this.
Are you not setting the relative value of the very concept when you refuse to be satisfied with how such is defined to begin with? Is "praise" and "worth" as set by me, or any other subjective value not "worthy" of being called such? Why?
I'm not claiming anything. I am claiming I don't know. Or don't know that I don't know even.
It maybe that relativism and objectivism is a paradox, and that relative praise needs belief in objective praise, but objective praise is impossible with existence of relative praise.
