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Published · transcript-backedJohn Gray: belief
29 Nov 2023 Conversations with Tyler John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism
“There may be values or goods or bads I can think about in an abstract way, but they’re not Platonic in the sense that they exist in some metaphysical realm independent of the human world. They’re all, I would say, projections of the human world, or at least of the living world.”
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- 29 Nov 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…For the biosphere? Well, I guess in principle, but how can one life change the biosphere? Only, basically, for something or someone that I love. You’re philosophically well read. It’s entirely, to me, an agent-relative thing. There may be values or goods or bads I can think about in an abstract way, but they’re not Platonic in the sense that they exist in some metaphysical realm independent of the human world. They’re all, I would say, projections of the human world, or at least of the living world. Other animals have needs and values, just as we do. I would only sacrifice my life for someone or something that I love, nothing else. What did your parents believe?…
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