Nature to iambiguous:
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Yes, but then I ask myself, “where do those shades come from if not from the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein in my signature threads here?” There are historical, cultural, and experiential assessments rooted in the actual experiences we have as individuals.
The distinction I then make are between those who recognize the subjective/subjunctive elements involved here and those who insist that, no, only their own understanding of nihilism actually does pin it down…philosophically?
Then the part where I insist that we’ll need an actual context.
As for Christianity, it is precisely because any number of Christians insist that only their own denomination reflects the one authentic meaning of God that they become exactly the opposite of nihilists to me. Then there’s Nietzsche’s will to power and the ubermensch. How is belief in them not analogous to a religion to some here?
Well, regarding the first part, I don’t agree. Or, rather, I don’t see how any of us as “mere mortals”, infinitesimally tiny specks of existence in the staggering vastness of all there is, can possibly demonstrate that in fact, there is no objective morality period.
Instead, my approach here is this: So, you do believe that there is an objective morality? Okay state your argument. Then note the manner in which you would go about demonstrating how, regarding this argument, all rational and virtuous human beings are obligated to think as you do. Especially how you go about demonstrating it to yourself.
Of course the scary thing here is that for those objectivists who do gain access to actual power in any particular community, they don’t have to demonstrate anything at all. They need only to believe it themselves and then go about the task ridding the community of those who refuse to toe the line.
The surreal example in Afghanistan right now. The objectivist Taliban are being challenged by the even more objectivist ISIS-K fanatics!
On the other hand, I never fail to point out that it’s the “show me the money” moral nihilists who own and operate the global economy that probably bring about the most human pain and suffering around the globe.
Though I certainly agree with you that there is no getting around the existence of meaningful morality per se in a world where human wants and needs ever come into conflict; making one or another set of “rules of behavior” all but mandatory. Then it just comes down to which particular combination of might makes right, right makes might and/or democracy and the rule of law prevails in any specific community.
Again, though, we need the discussion to shift to an actual set of circumstances in which “conflicting goods” give rise to conflicting behaviors give rise to actual consequences in human interactions.
Here my own existential self rooted in dasein is “fractured and fragmented” given the manner in which “I” have thought myself into thinking this: