Much of Western Civilization’s greatest achievements were motivated by monstrous falsehoods—fantastic churches, brilliant poetry, sublime symphonies. We’re those falsehoods then justified by their effects?
No, because the creative mating effort would have happened anyway, in some other form.
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"Some other form" in a secular environment: 1) Building drab, towering financial buildings 2) Spittin' Soundcloud rap 3) "Hey wassup it's ya boy don't 5get to slam that muhfukin like button"
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Writing Ulysses?
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What is the secular equivalent to devotional art? Architecture? Etc? I don’t believe in God, but without a church trying to glorify God (and in term themselves), who funds these artists to create these great works?
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Yes. When it comes to motivation for sex, there's a big substitution effect. In practice, any reason is a good one.
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Falsehoods? By what notion of truth: positivist science/zoology? That the entity we happen to be has discovered knowledge, assuming the accuracy of our cognitive apparatus, which is supposed to have evolved arbitrarily as a vehicle for the transmission of ‘its’ genetic material?
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