The Absurd
Well, chickens don't grapple with theology. Nor do they actually grasp that when they're dead and gone that means forever and forever and forever. Besides, what do they know of being gobbled down by us? And while some of our Gods may well send us packing to Hell, they don't actually consume us.One is supposed to behold and partake of the glory of God...in a way in which chickens do not share in the glory of coq au vin.
Two different things entirely, right?
The same is true in that, for some, "a state, a movement, or a revolution" can become the equivalent of God. And, as well, that there have been and are many, many different and ofttimes hopelessly conflicting such entities down through the ages. And still today. Such that each member of the clique/claque sees themselves as part of the state, the movement, and/or the revolution. Enabling them to divide up the world between "one of us" and "one of them".The same is true of service to a state, a movement, or a revolution. People can come to feel, when they are part of something bigger, that it is part of them too. They worry less about what is peculiar to themselves, but identify enough with the larger enterprise to find their role in it fulfilling.
Here alone we've had dozens of them.
In other words, not just my reasons.However, any such larger purpose can be put in doubt in the same way that the aims of an individual life can be, and for the same reasons.
Or your reasons?
Indeed, some philosophers come up with truly elaborate philosophical contraptions in order to propose just that. Hegel for example, idealistically. Marx, materialistically. And then of course all the philosophical realists among us. Suggesting a priori mind independent realities that are applicable only after we manage to yank ourselves out of the shadowy existential caves of mere mortals.It is as legitimate to find ultimate justification there as to find it earlier, among the details of individual life. But this does not alter the fact that justifications come to an end when we are content to have them end---when we do not find it necessary to look any further. If we can step back from the purposes of individual life and doubt their point, we can step back also from the progress of human history, or of science, or the success of a society, or the kingdom, power, and glory of God, and put all these things into question in the same way. What seems to us to confer meaning, justification, significance, does so in virtue of the fact that we need no more reasons after a certain point.
And then, of course, the sociopaths. Those who need no more reason to do what they do than that no one, apparently, is able to stop them from doing it.
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