David Chapman on Meaningness

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Principles

Meta-rationality can help resolve rational dillemma's:

• Eternalism fixates meaning; nihilism denies it. Recognizing that meaning is both nebulous and patterned resolves this false dichotomy.

• Unity and diversity: Stances concerning connection and separateness: monism, dualism, and participation.

• Selfness: Abandoning selflessness and egoism equally, we can play with the ambiguous self/other boundary; supple, skillful selfing for successful, satisfying interaction.

• Purpose: Dividing purposes into higher and mundane, mission pursues higher ends and rejects pragmatism; materialism seeks only selfish goals. Both are mistakes.

• Personal value: Agonizing over whether you are ordinary or special—or feeling smug about one or the other—can be resolved by choosing to be noble instead.

• Capability: Resolving a false dichotomy between unrealistic views: being a helpless victim and being totally responsible for your circumstances.

• Ethics: Available ethical theories are either eternalist or nihilist; both are useless. We must recognize that ethics are both nebulous and meaningful.

• Authority: A better alternative to the dysfunctional stances of mindlessly opposing authority and mindlessly obeying.

• Sacredness: Resolving the twin delusions that nothing is sacred and that the only sacred things are those designated by some authority.