RE: Ego-- harmful delusion or pragmatic necessity?
May 2, 2015 at 5:30 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2015 at 5:35 am by Mudhammam.)
What I take from all of this:
We tend to place a higher value on objectivity because it grants us enlightenment about the world in which we are inessential participants, and therefore, more freedom insofar as it allows us to measure our present situation and the probability of future outcomes with greater precision. However, in regards to the particulars that comprise the bulk of our inner lives, from qualia to lofty ideals of purpose and morality, all we have to proceed from is speculation informed by the theoretical and practical reasons that prove most fruitful in the aforementioned nonpartisan framework.
We tend to place a higher value on objectivity because it grants us enlightenment about the world in which we are inessential participants, and therefore, more freedom insofar as it allows us to measure our present situation and the probability of future outcomes with greater precision. However, in regards to the particulars that comprise the bulk of our inner lives, from qualia to lofty ideals of purpose and morality, all we have to proceed from is speculation informed by the theoretical and practical reasons that prove most fruitful in the aforementioned nonpartisan framework.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
