Hi DMB, DMB: > Not to change the subject, but doesn't seem like a much more sensible > question? Instead of asking what life means, maybe we should be asking about > the good life, about the best way to live. Despite their differences, Plato > and Aristotle are both connecting "the good" with a meaningful and happy > life. It's an awfully vague goal, and that's what's so good about it. If it > gets much more specific, then we're right back in the soup and it's just > another externally imposed meaning. Good is goal of all endeavor. Add that to > Pirsig's idea that art is any high quality endeavor. They add up to an idea > that the meaning of life is to live artfully.
Steve: You aren't changing the subject. You've just finally got the point. If meaning cashes out to use, then the question of the meaning of life is a matter of better and worse uses for life. It is a question determining good ways to live rather than a question of justifying being itself. Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
