from a constructivist point of view meaning emerges from the search for it and from the negotiation within a cultural niche and between individuals. what does a person do when meaning refuses to arise, or even better, when meaning (for events, life bla bla) refuses to be constructed within the boundaries of your own brain interacting with the world?
2006-12-29 09:21:25 · 5 answers · asked by vax 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Change the boundaries. It means you've missed something, you don't have all the information. Wait for it to come or learn to focus better because chances are it's staring at you right in the face.
Is that what you were after or were you asking something different?
2006-12-29 11:16:51 · answer #1 · answered by q 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without joy, a philosophy can fall mercilessly into merely describing the world and missing the experience.
Is sex a merely biological event?
Is love just temporarily imbalanced hormones?
If you answered yes, then your world-view truly lacks joy.
Meaning is seldom discovered within the naval-lint of selfish introspection.
Meaning comes from others.
Someone, other than me, loves me.
Someone gives me their caring; therefore I have value. My life's worth is shown by the acts of someone else.
Knowing this; if I still lack joy, then I have not given away to someone else what was freely given to me.
Whether my gift is given by a well-defined method found in my culture or I invent my own method is immaterial. The essential thing is that a relationship exists.
Meaning comes from first recognizing that love exists. Next, that I have received it. Then, to experience joy, and find meaning, I must give love to someone.
To only take and not give is selfish.
To ignore the gift received is the very definition of being a boor.
To merely describe love but not exchange it, is deadening and it demeans us. We find the lessening grows deeper. In depression we know only our own need as a cycle repeating and growing and dominating our lives. Thoughts about my needs, my desires unfulfilled, my ambitions thwarted...
No.
Joy is much better.
2006-12-29 19:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by T K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decide to construct your own meaning. You use the passive
form describing the search of meaning. Don't wait for meaning to be constructed, put your working clothes on and do it yourself.
Existentialism extols something like this concept.
Peace
2006-12-29 19:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by zingis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't find one.
2006-12-29 18:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT 'S TRUE!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-29 17:33:36 · answer #5 · answered by mikrodimitris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋