(August 19, 2021 at 4:09 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: The absurdist position breaks down when you have no need of it though. When you have reasons to live that are meaningful to you, no need to see life as absurd. Then we can (and should) have a Platonic disposition.
And the Platonic position breaks apart upon when scrutinized without veils rationalization. No need to see life in within the framework of any Grand Narrative to give the illusion of meaning. :-)
Perhaps there is a natural vacillation between feelings of nihilism and significance. It seems that the great men and women of faith had doubts at least as deep.
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