Sunday, January 31, 2010

I want to pose again a question that I offered in our last class, to which a few people responded, just to see if anyone else has any thoughts. Does either found reality or constructed reality deserve more attention than the other? This is an axiological question, concerning what elements of reality are to be considered valuable. It is at least apparent that found reality lacks significance independent of our axiological goals, and that axiology can be either informed by or significantly idiosyncratic of found reality, or both. I would conjecture that, at the very least, we need to pay enough attention to found reality to know the best ways to pursue our axiological projects successfully. Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?