Human Value Nonexistent?

[The Grand Nudger]

You are right. I'm talking more about praise as in moral praise, worth, that type of thing.

Well I'm not saying all of it's "pure instinct". It has structure, but it's driven by instinct. So subjective value has some structure. If it didn't have any structure, we wouldn't function.

I like lasagna more then chicken, therefore I value lasagna more then chicken. Yes I like lasagna more. It makes me happier when I eat lasagna. Therefore it's more valuable to me. This subjective. But a lot of this chaotic. For example, when I was a kid, I read garfield books. Garfield liked lasagna a lot. Then I had a passion for it. This passion remains. It's passion.

So you do understand that your own authority is all that matters on the subject of what you personally value...that there is no point in arguing objectivity in preference?

In the case of myths, they are not without structure either. They are as valuable as they work for a human and provide structure to society. They mean something to that human. But it's driven by passion at it's basis.

The trouble with the structure of myth is that they refer to the authority of something that cannot be demonstrated to exist (even in whatever limited way that you can be demonstrated to exist). So, if you and I have a difference of opinion (value or "praiseworthiness") we can both explain on our own authority, as two creatures that we can both agree exist (non-existent things have precisely how much authority?) why we prefer one thing over another. We still may not agree, but at least we aren't invoking ghosts as excuses for our own value judgements.

-Which is all that we are referring to when we say that something is "praiseworthy"-