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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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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This is why I suggested JP interview - in it he addresses this very powerfully from evolutionary perspective
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I don't have much confidence in him. He tends to talk a lot of obscure weirdness about religion, gender & truth.
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Also, as
@SamHarrisOrg would be quick to point out, Science, itself, has to assume certain premises before it can get started as well.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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