RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
April 17, 2014 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2014 at 7:42 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: How can purely physical things and processes have any meaning at all?They are instrumental to subjective or intuitive purpose.
How is a purpose that comes from God any better than a purpose that comes from yourself?
(April 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Ontological naturalism excludes both final and formal causes. Those exclusions make any form of intentionality impossible.Excuse me, how again do you get from ontological naturalism to intentionality being impossible? I hope you realize that (ontological) naturalism doesn't have a well-established meaning. -> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/
For other readers: Final and formal causes
(April 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Secondly a life has meaning in the same way symbolic representations do. Words and pictures point to things other than themselves. Thus a person's life has meaning to the extent that it serves as a sign and symbol of something they value. The difference between atheists and believers is that atheists can only refer to proximate values whereas believers identify with transcendent or eternal values.
Say what now?
