I believe in science not because I want to, but because it has enabled us to build weapons of war. It is provable via death. What's there to argue with?
Nothing in this article suggests to me that any sort of subjective belief can come close to that. And yeah, as another commenter suggested, scientific facts come much closer to tying the knot with their subjective counterparts than vice versa. The explanation that, if you don't act like you believe in a moral god, then you'll develop a personality which leads to despair and unhappiness, seems to me much more compelling than something from the other end. (Maybe like 'the firmament of fields vibrates to the music of eternal existence and consciousness springs from a sufficiently beautiful harmony of vibrating being-ness)
The article doesn't address this to my satisfaction so I fail to see what it can do. It's just another call to action to deny the nihilism (which it mischaracterizes as cynicism) which will destroy our society.
petal_supply_fan t1_iuzd3z0 wrote
Reply to The meaning crisis and language II — We need to ‘believe’ myth and metaphor in order to understand ourselves by Melodic_Antelope6490
I believe in science not because I want to, but because it has enabled us to build weapons of war. It is provable via death. What's there to argue with?
Nothing in this article suggests to me that any sort of subjective belief can come close to that. And yeah, as another commenter suggested, scientific facts come much closer to tying the knot with their subjective counterparts than vice versa. The explanation that, if you don't act like you believe in a moral god, then you'll develop a personality which leads to despair and unhappiness, seems to me much more compelling than something from the other end. (Maybe like 'the firmament of fields vibrates to the music of eternal existence and consciousness springs from a sufficiently beautiful harmony of vibrating being-ness)
The article doesn't address this to my satisfaction so I fail to see what it can do. It's just another call to action to deny the nihilism (which it mischaracterizes as cynicism) which will destroy our society.