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?
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it appears to me that we construct all of the reality we find to some exponential degree (by imposing categories, etc.),
ReplyDeletein need of establishing a system of knowledge to associate and communicate what we
experience. therefore, in a social context, and perhaps even for each individual,
constructing reality is of great importance and necessity. however, these constructions
upon what we find may not be truth. at we cost do we forgo knowing the thing-in-itself?
i do not know, but it seems we do not have a choice but to at least put it aside.