If there is advantage in it, money-advantage or any other kind, to those in a position to seize advantage for themselves or their offspring, of course it will be done. And of course it will be amazing.
I don't understand, literally don't understand, the meaning of sentences beginning "human purpose is to...."
"Meaning" resides someplace. Where is the investor-of-meaning, or the judge-of-meaningfulness, to which you refer when you refer to "human purpose"? I mean, where or whose is the mind to which you refer-- the one that decides the "purpose" of human beings?
Maybe you mean we each have our own idea of what would give the world, to us, as individuals, a feeling of having "meaning"?
But how is that a "nonhuman" purpose of man? Isn't it specifically, and maybe exclusively, a human function-- the use and application and explication of concepts like "meaning," or "purpose," or "value"?
Of course I agree that the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel means nothing to any entity in the universe except us. Why should it? But isn't ruing that fact simply ruing the non-existence of a God-mind?
I could see a person who was brought up to be religious missing it, or ruing the loss of such beliefs, though. Not having ever been told there was a God, though, it feels normal to me to not rue that the standards being applied here are our own. For better or worse (mostly worse, from my perspective.)
Why are you posting so seldom these days, nihil? I miss your posts. |
