RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 10, 2021 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2021 at 9:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why, why does reductivism or physicalism have a problem approaching meaning as you see it, and why would a god provide whatever meaning that is. I can't really comment unless you can specify your preferred category.
Ultimately, I may not see that meaning - that may be the case, reinforcing your intuitions, but I just won't know that unless you can explicate what it is you're after. I've not been presented with any value or meaning that the faithful profess that I don't have without a god in my life or that would require one, or, even, one that a god could effect.
The world of meaning, as you put it, seems to exists regardless of the answer to the question of a gods existence. If we found out, demonstrably and definitevely, that there were no gods. If we lived in a world, all other things being equal, where no human being believed them....it seems that this would not answer any of our questions about apprehended meaning, we would still have all of them, and all of the pursuant disagreements.
No?
Or, to put it in different terms. If you found out that I did -or- didn't exist, that doesn't answer any question with respect to the meaning or value of life, does it?
Ultimately, I may not see that meaning - that may be the case, reinforcing your intuitions, but I just won't know that unless you can explicate what it is you're after. I've not been presented with any value or meaning that the faithful profess that I don't have without a god in my life or that would require one, or, even, one that a god could effect.
The world of meaning, as you put it, seems to exists regardless of the answer to the question of a gods existence. If we found out, demonstrably and definitevely, that there were no gods. If we lived in a world, all other things being equal, where no human being believed them....it seems that this would not answer any of our questions about apprehended meaning, we would still have all of them, and all of the pursuant disagreements.
No?
Or, to put it in different terms. If you found out that I did -or- didn't exist, that doesn't answer any question with respect to the meaning or value of life, does it?
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