Chuck Grimes wrote: > There is no independent standard for stating the value of human life?
Sorry, Chuck, but there's nothing in this world that is absolutely independent from all the rest. There's universal interdependence. So, the value of human life is the value of what we do with it. And the value of the things we do in/with our lives is the amount of our lives that goes into them. Valuing wealth is the same process by which we value ourselves, except that view from the reverse side. Of course, we can measure objects with objects and lives with lives. We do this all the time because we need to do it. At a deeper layer, the Object is the measure of the Subject. And the Subject is the measure of the Object. But at the deepest one, Protagoras was right: We (the reflective, thinking part of nature) are the measure of all things, ourselves included... which leads to "logical indeterminacy." We live with that. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
