Some people feel our human experience is diminished if we understand how it works cognitively, particularly in the case of love & art.
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But that doesn't mean abandon science, just that meaning comes from our relationships and unfashionable things like morality and how to be
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And for some people, meaning comes from science too. People can be very passionate about understanding our world and our nature.
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Yes but passion for knowledge not same as motivation for meaningful human good - nazi doctor's human experiments?
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People can find good and bad things meaningful, yes. These can be related to a passion for knowledge or not.
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You also have to define what you mean by "good," "bad," "meaningful," etc. before you can talk about them and definitions entail premises.
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Yes. As a humanist, I find Nazi experiments bad. Eugenicists find them good.
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So we reject moral relativism then (I hope) because one is clearly good and the other clearly bad...
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I think so, yes, because my premise is that individual human wellbeing matters. Others disagree & we need to show why they're wrong.
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No matter how much we learn about ourselves we will always be left with questions of how to act. Science cant teach how to live a good life
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Different issue, yes. You need to have an ethical premise first & then draw on science to implement it. Premises vary.
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Absolutely, but the horse (moral premise/sense of meaning/value) should pull the cart (science/tech/systems)
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Well, it has to. You have to have a plan first & this will always incorporate values.
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Science is a tool. It is used to implement certain things we want. It can also explain why we want certain things.
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