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This group is for people with some background in philosophy who want to explore new ideas about human existence that focus on the concepts of consciousness and value as key to resolving the enigma of life. Yet everyone is welcome, interested inquirers, avid readers, outliers, undergraduates and professors of philosophy alike.
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How can ‘truth’ or ‘the will to truth’ qualify value or the will to value?
·OnlineOnlineWorkshop # 10 , will to Truth, Series 12, (S7,32)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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And buy my book The Pursuit of Value from Amazon BooksThe workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.
THIS WEEK: Both modern and postmodern thought presents ‘truth’ as a value-laden human artifact. Yet it still functions well as, what Kant called, a ‘regulative concept’ or principle. And although Bernard Williams speaks of an “unconditional will to truth” he still relegates ‘truth’ as an everyday notion that we have to use in order to navigate the world. ‘Truth’ cannot therefore be employed simply as an objective ideal to establish values. But we can ask, whether it can be used as a means of qualifying the kinds of values that we might legitimately pursue, like intrinsic values, or value itself? Reading: The Will to Value, Ch. 4, Scn. iii.
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