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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (12031)4/19/2001 5:42:59 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
Recognition, acknowledgment: ok.....It all is the same to my argument. If you embrace Russell's view of the world, then it makes sense to be an atheist (or "virtual atheist"), but it also means acknowledging that personality, beauty, and meaning are purely subjective. There is no compelling reason to embrace that view of the world. Reality may be far richer than the reductionism of scientism would know. And, in any case, we are surer of the human world that I described than of the abstraction from our senses presented by scientism. Remember, part of my argument was for the (qualified) objectivity of aesthetic and moral values. Anyone who accepts the reality of the human world described would find resonance in the idea of divinity, as being the only way that meaning could triumph over accident and purpose could be instilled in things......
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