tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post4847029939392243197..comments2024-03-29T08:19:26.011-07:00Comments on Edward Feser: Aquinas on the meaning of lifeEdward Feserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13643921537838616224noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8954608646904080796.post-88070963328600986172018-05-28T03:32:15.237-07:002018-05-28T03:32:15.237-07:00Part of the essence of a finite sentient being is ...Part of the essence of a finite sentient being is already to function with meaning. Meaning is a member of the equivalence class of necessary truths. And like other basic relations transcends any denial of it and is even assumed in such a denial.<br /><br />More to the point, to question or deny the meaning of life assumes it, and this is part of the reason why dilettantes and anti-intellectuals don't start out with an explanation of what meaning itself *means*, much less why the question itself is even addressed in the first place. That latter would of course require some criterion for which questions "matter" and which do not.<br /><br />If life did not have meaning, it's difficult to see how one could know that fact itself, or why the question or even the word itself could even possibly arise.machinephilosophyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07715878687266064548noreply@blogger.com