Meaning
Musings
mb - Focusing your life on experiences is so incredibly egoistic and small because these experiences end when your life ends rather focusing on building something that lasts is meaningful.
We need words for meaning. Communicating meaning. Nothing else
words
Is Meaning an archetype / archetypical (meta) construct / construct with archetypical properties?
Archetypes
When we lose our sense of meaning in everything we do and think we lose everything.--MB
Meaning is a feature of human nature
There might be concepts that are even universal across species, like pain.
Each species has their own framework for meaning.
Meaning is not exclusive to the human species.
Meaning & Empathy
Consequences
If we "should" base meaning on empathy
is a normative question
Empathy as framework to create meaning
pain ...
(own and of others)
... becomes meaningful / a guiding principle
reducing pain becomes a good
I was wrong when I said:
Without empathy there is no meaning
Without empathy there is no meaning. / Without empathy meaning does not exist.--MB
Meaning Requires/Needs Empathy
Meaning can be based upon different frameworks
Even a sociopath ...
by definition has no empathy
creates meaning usually around the individual's specific goals and objectives
The way of nature and the way of grace.
The way of nature
The fact if a person exhibits empathy or not and to which degree determines this persons' framework of meaning.
Definition
