You make a claim like this and all I can do is to keep pointing out that while you believe it is true in your head, you have no capacity that I am aware to actually demonstrate why all rational human beings are obligated to believe the same.
Unless of course you can demonstrate it.
I look around me at a world that is bursting at the seams with conflicting goods. Historically, there were communities in which the community itself was the fundamental hub in the wheel. Today that is only more or less the case. Depending on where you go across the globe.
And, sure, you can always fall back on a word like “inevitable” when you need to “prove” that your argument, while not borne out today, will be borne out at some point in the future.
This is where morality [ individually ] and politics / philosophy / religion [ collectively ] come from. Ontology [ a branch of philosophy ] features in this also
As these states deal with the human condition then existentialism will feature within them and the basic driver for all this is an attempt to understand our place in the grand scheme of things and especially because of our mortality which can make it all seem entirely meaningless. So religion was invented in order to overcome
our fear of death. Whether it is actually true or not is another matter but it is for many an antidote to the otherwise aforementioned meaninglessness of existence
Okay, that is a “general description” of human interactions that seems reasonable to me. It reflects one aspect of “the human condition” embedded in that particular “somethingness” of which we are a part today. But it doesn’t make conflicting goods go away. And it it is but one of many such narratives proposed as a way of explaining existence as we know it today.
However an alternative view [ one I subscribe to ] is that nothing truly matters only in the here and now. Our existence is important to us even though we are only
passing through. But from the perspective of the Universe it makes precisely zero difference whether we exist or not and eventually we shall be extinct and be no
more. This all sounds very depressing but it is only so if you let it be. For me the inevitability of non existence is something I simply accept without question. Even
more so as there is nothing to be afraid of in an eternal state of death
On the other hand, how close have you actually been to death? The falling over into the abyss that becomes nothingness for all of eternity death. Not death the intellectual contraption.
And the bottom line [mine] is that in a world awash in contingency, chance and change, any new experience, relationship or access to new knowledge and information, might reconfigure your own particular “I” in any number of ways.
The part about dasein – “I” as an existential contraption – in other words.
But the bottom line that you may well embody is that whatever you are able to convince yourself is true in your head here and now “works” if it provides you with some measure of comfort and consolation.
So, for all practicial purposes, here and now, you have “licked” death. You can deal with it in ways that others [like me] are not able to.
But two crucial things still prevail in my view:
1] neither of us are able to close the gap between what we think is true here and all that can be known about existence in order to be absolutely certain beyond all doubt
2] neither of us are able to demonstrate with absolute certainty that the words that we are exchanging here were not the only words we were ever able to exchange