The distribution and understanding of conflicting and supportive values limit our perspectives to the certain reality we create for ourselves. Although there is no such thing as absolute certainty of objectivity, there will always be meaning, value and determination. That all too familiar state of absurdity renders our systems useless when we approach Moral Nihilism. The will to power, to me anyways, produces nihilism in the realization of value-power. There is no right way, only systems of values that are seemingly ‘right’ or ‘good’ because of their overall influence, longevity and strength. For what the latter constitutes, I am not certain; it could possibly be the depth, complexity or logic of any value system that proceeds to innovate for a vast amount of time, for a vast amount of people or both. But what does willing your value system over another simialr or different system really accomplish? Does a moral decision really hold any truth? The will to power defeating nihilism is a paradox, but after all, does nihilism not produce a paradox of its own? If the only objective ‘truth’ is absolute subjectivity, does this contradiction logically collapse? Or with the consideration of influence and will, does willing value(s) accomplish little against realizing the impossibility of certainty and absolute ‘goodness’?
I have maintained skepticism in regards to both moral issues for which I do not extensively worry myself over. Morality and Ethics is not as troubling to me in comparison to the other faculties of philosophy which interest me most. Digression into the philosophies of logic, language and phenomenalism are much more fascinating than these bitter dilemmas of moral valuing. But here, inside this crude pit of confusion and contradiction, I maintain a doubt, a question, an inquiry, that I hope someone out there could engage in. The questions above should be considered but not elaborated because this is not the focus of the issue. I do not want this to turn into a thread about Nihilism, on the contrary, a thread about defeating it-or perhaps affirming-through the careful consideration and serious inquiry into the matter of main concern. If we could find middle ground between the extremes of completely denying or affirming Nihilism, we should have a personal resolution to this dilemma. The matter of main concern has to do with existence; specifically the existence of value, meaning and determination.
I have read a Kantian acceptance for the state of existence. I was waiting for Godot when I came upon this doubt. The Moral Nihilism poisoning my mind, a different poison than value itself, birthed a revaluation of how Kant replied to those Ontological arguments founded for the bias of God and religious dogma. I am in no way religious and would first lay down my biases in order to present this doubt reasonably. I know if we were to agree with a new interpretation of Kantian existence, we would also have to reevaluate all the boring, nonsensical, dogmatic Ontology. The prolific utterance of Kant, “existence is not a predicate”, limited Ontology and agreeably so. But when I face this Moral dilemma over and over, I wonder whether the existence of values and meaning, and the influential wills which accompany them, hold predication in their existence.
- Is existence something we do or something we are?
2)Is existence something an object does or is it something it is?
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Is existence something a concept does or something it is?
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Is existence something values do or is it something they are?
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Is existence something the will to power does or something it is?
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If say, both being and becoming is existence, does existence succeed predication?
I have only been on this site four weeks and I have realized now, I can’t mess with the big dogs. Posts like this one really demonstrate my philosophical immaturity. From now on, most if not all of my posts will go to the Sandbox. Most of my ideas are half-formed or full of doubt for which I can use this forum for personalized discussion. Hopefully these questions can be cleary answered which I’m assuming will be easy for this site’s daily users.
