Potential for value identification
In the SD
Hello,
A. I wanted to ask, a somewhat strange question, if a person is able to understand the phrase “life has meaning,” but on the other hand, consciously does not believe that life has meaning, is it still possible to say that following the ability to understand this concept on the potential level, this does show that he believes that objective meaning exists in one way or another?
Because if he believes that there is absolutely no meaning, this concept would be complete gibberish for him, wouldn’t it? For example, can you understand a person who talks about the feeling of a turtle when it sees the sea? Or of an alien from another planet, certainly not. So it seems inappropriate to talk about understanding a concept when he categorically denies it.
on. And I wanted to ask the same question about all values. For example, if a person fully understands the claim that helping others is a good deed and is able to argue with people who have objective morality, but on the other hand consciously thinks that there is no such thing as “good” at all, isn’t there some kind of problem with such a debate, which was supposedly supposed to be a discourse of the deaf according to him?
A. If he understands the concept of meaning in itself, without regard to life, I see no reason why he should also understand the phrase “meaning of life,” even though he believes that life has no meaning.
B. It is not similar. If in his opinion there is no such thing as good, then it is heresy in the concept and not just in a particular instance of it.
B. Thanks. I did think there was a problem with that.
A. Isn't objective meaning a different concept from subjective meaning, for example because in a world without values there can be no understanding of an expression of objective meaning as to how one *should* live. So there still seems to be a certain leap here, doesn't there?
But the concept of "meaning" appears in both in the same sense. It's like the concept of "animal" in relation to an animal that lives in the air or the sea.
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