Name: 2017 Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual
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Started that I started the beginning of the class

What it what the problem was that I was trying to address?

The fundamental problem was the problem of belief systems

what precisely constitutes a belief system and

Then a secondary question was why are people so inclined to

even engage in conflict to Maintain and Expand their belief systems

and then maybe a sub question of that and is there an alternative to conflict with regards to belief systems and

Was something like well. Is there a way of judging the relative quality of belief systems?

And so those are all very very complicated questions, I

How is it possible to understand the structures by which we orient ourselves in the world the second one is something like

Precisely of those systems. What role does it play in?

psychological health and maybe also in Social health

can you make a [non] [relativistic] case when you assess an array of different value systems and

hierarchically organized value systems in

The manner that's justifiable, so that something can be reasonably considered in

Drew my attention because because of the implications of the first set and the last

Was trying to sort out the metaphysics in some sense of the cold war?

the question was was this just a battleground between

appropriate belief systems which would could be a morally immoral relativistic perspective right it's belief systems are arbitrary and

So combat between them is in some sense inevitable and even more to the point there isn't any other way

Victor because there's no such thing as victory if there's no way of ranking value systems. It's arbitrary

As a frightening prospect because it means that if you have a value system, and I have a value system

And they're different and they're different

[I] mean we can talk or you can subordinate yourself, or I could do the same

But there's also no [reason] why we shouldn't just engage in Flat-out

now it's complicated in the modern world obviously by the fact that conflict can become so

[untraveled] that it risks destroying everything and that doesn't seem necessarily to be in anyone's best interest unless

Your interest haps happens to be in destroying everything and certainly there are no shortage of people whose interests tilt in that direction

Alright, so the first question was well. What does it mean to have a belief [system] and

That's a very complicated problem, and I think

Maybe you can break the question of being into two

Which we've done in this class, and you could say well, you can assess being

From the perspective of what exists and then you can assess being from the perspective of how?

so it's like you walk into a room and you can describe the furniture or

You can determine how your going to conduct yourself in the room

Maybe it's the difference between a play and the stage setting for a play now

Perspectives Roughly speaking is that the fundamental reality is to be found in the description of the furniture?

So to speak in the description of what is that's the scientific?

[and] the scientific process seems to involve

from perception and to some degree from action and

the extraction of the commonalities across

process, and it has many advantages, but exactly what it is that

science is doing is not precisely clear one perspective might be is that

Discovering the Nature of objective reality [and] perhaps even the nature of reality itself

There are some problems with that perspective

The scientific process seems to strip the subjective from the phenomena. It does that technically right?

I mean you have [a] hypothesis about what something is and you have a hypothesis about what something is and you have [a]

hypothesis [about] some [what] something is and we undertake a number of procedures to assess what the

Fundamental phenomena is and then we look across our perceptual set and we extract out the commonalities

And we dispense with everything that is superfluous everything that's merely subjective

So what you feel about the chair is not relevant to the objective existence of the chair and so it

eradicate subjectivity, and that's a very useful process because it does seem to enable us to

Grasp reality in a fundamental sense more profoundly, but it leaves the subjective behind and maybe that's a problem

Because it annoys okay, okay? Thank you. [what] [if] I just didn't alright appreciate it, so

so then the issue might [be] well is something you retrieve ibly lost if you dispense with this objective and and

Deep a hole do you dig when you dispense with this objective?

Problem of the relationship between is [an] [dot]

Philosophical conundrum, I think first put forth by D. David hume

No matter how much you know about something from an empirical perspective?

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