(March 11, 2015 at 8:54 am)ChadWooters Wrote:That would seem to advance something like absolute meaning and I have no idea what that is meant to imply irrelative to a subject's intentional stance towards reality.(March 10, 2015 at 5:52 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Can one be a moral nihilist but not an existential nihilist?
I tend to flip those around and postulate a nihilistic approach to morals, but that existence itself is not, and cannot be, meaningless. (existential nihilism) Meaning, for me, is an a priori category which we find ourselves 'thrown into' by virtue of the nature of our minds.
Is that a consistent position? I'm not sure. It would seem existential meaning might ground ethical meaning.
That sounds about right to me, if I understand you correctly. Reality itself must first be capable of supporting meaning if there is to be the possibility of minds that can assign value.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza