A lot of people here have a good knowledge of the classic philosophers, and I don't and had an idea today and was wondering how Philosophy treated it. I am wondering what philosophies say about it.
My thought springs from all of the conversations on the forum. People often discuss on here the nature of reality or consciousness and also free will. Sometimes people wonder if life is pointless or if life without God would seem pointless or if morals are real and just all kinds of questions like those. So there's this huge question people pose about whether life/morality/existence is pointless, random, directed. It shows up in many threads phrased as many challenges ro religion, to nonreligion.
Let us suppose that people have completely scripted lives or the opposite that life is random. In the first case how would one ever know if life was pointleess/real/meaningful/not? In the second case would the randomness indicate reality was real/meaningful/uncontrolled?
What do the major Philosophers have to say about it, please? Thanks. You need not reply at length if its troublesome. Just link or reference, and that's plenty of help.
My thought springs from all of the conversations on the forum. People often discuss on here the nature of reality or consciousness and also free will. Sometimes people wonder if life is pointless or if life without God would seem pointless or if morals are real and just all kinds of questions like those. So there's this huge question people pose about whether life/morality/existence is pointless, random, directed. It shows up in many threads phrased as many challenges ro religion, to nonreligion.
Let us suppose that people have completely scripted lives or the opposite that life is random. In the first case how would one ever know if life was pointleess/real/meaningful/not? In the second case would the randomness indicate reality was real/meaningful/uncontrolled?
What do the major Philosophers have to say about it, please? Thanks. You need not reply at length if its troublesome. Just link or reference, and that's plenty of help.