Ham,
> I'm glad something clicked. But you're still hung up on a physical
> universe.
> Think of the universe as a "world of appearances" which you yourself
> intellectualize from sensory experience. It is your world, your reality,
> the object of your subjectivity.
> What you see as beautiful is what you value as beauty. What you admire as
> intelligent reflects your intellectual values. The morality you aspire to
> is what your sensibility values as good and virtuous.
> If you can't think of yourself as "special", try thinking of someone you
> regard as special. Or think of the achievements of mankind throughout
> history. Surely there is something very special about human interaction
> with the world, as compared with any other species or entity. In a
> valuistic (qualitative) sense, the universe is an anthropocentric system
> whose form, qualities, and attributes are defined by man's experience and
> measured in terms of his value-sensibility. Being itself is a construct
> that you "create" valuistically. Things ("in themselves") don't have to
> "perceive" values inasmuch as their existence is the result of YOUR value
> sensibility.
I saw a PBS documentary last night on a Mennonite Church in California that
has established a support group for convicted pedophiles released from
prison. In their group discussions and interviews it was apparent they were
all struggling to overcome personal philosophies very much like the one you
describe above. All their stories were versions of, If "what I see as
beautiful" is little girls or boys and I think of myself as "special" then
these "things" "don't have...values" other than what I "construct or create"
of what is "good" for me. I just found these uncared for, poor, beautiful,
waifs without love and I was just giving them some.
Yuck,
Dave
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