Values and meaning.
Hello Rabbi!
A bit of a confusing question, apologies in advance.
Rhetorical question: When a person approaches the question of whether something is significant or valuable, should they investigate it on a philosophical or psychological level?
What is the value of a philosophical statement that a certain thing has value, if psychologically I feel that it has no value? After all, what interests me in the end is what “I” consider to be valuable, because after all, I come to discuss what value is according to my understanding, what value is for me, and this is ostensibly a psychological question, so why even discuss what value is on a philosophical level?
Exactly the opposite. The question of whether something has psychological value is about interest (what is psychologically beneficial to me). It is really not interesting on the value level. What is important is only the philosophical value.
And perhaps you mean a different question, whether what determines the value is my feeling that something has value or the objective truth. Here it is clear that it is the objective truth, but my feeling is the indication I have of that truth. If it turns out that I was wrong, then it is clear that the objective level is important. Unless you are presenting a skeptical position here according to which we do not have access to the truth outside of our feelings, then this is simply the issue of skepticism that has been discussed here more than once.
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