Purpose statement

Jan 03, 2005 15:50

On second thought, there is no purpose ( Read more... )

-ive-ournal, telos, purpose

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anonymous January 4 2005, 05:46:06 UTC
"Purpose is fiction told to us by our intuitions. It is an evolutionary trick--our species thrived when it learned to use tools ( ... )

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Patience paulhope January 4 2005, 06:35:05 UTC
"What living beings exist is determined by what genes are successfully able to propagate themselves ( ... )

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What unbearable lightness indeed! theshowmustgo0n January 6 2005, 01:52:48 UTC
This entry reeks of postmodernism. OH, deconstruct me . Only you give it a nativist flare with your talk of evolution and the thriving of our species. I like that.
The question of use, purpose, and more abstractly, meaning and the lack thereof is an interesting one. Paul Tillich would say that the modern era (and more so the pomo era) is in an ontic crisis of spiritual self-affirmation, which he says is the anxiety over emptiness and loss of meaning. Human beings are suspended by the "webs of meaning" that they construct, personally or as a society, and we are now experienceing their disintigration in all spheres of academia. Your entry is a testament to this aspect of the modern era, only you represent a rare case insofar as you seem to have no anxiety about these kinds of things.

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Re: What unbearable lightness indeed! paulhope January 6 2005, 03:16:46 UTC
I have a favorite Nietzsche quote that captures my attitude towards constructed 'webs of meaning':

"And may everything be broken that cannot brook our truths! There are yet many houses to be built!"

Nietzsche's so badass.

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