Dr. J. Budziszewski
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Why are we even upset if we can't find meaning?
Why do we throw bricks at the universe and say, well, you don't have any?
It's because we're mad that our expectation of meaning has been disappointed.
Why do we have that expectation?
Because in general, things do change.
make sense.
People say, well, I can admit my own meaning.
Well, come on now.
I might say, because I was eating a sardine sandwich once while watching children at play, I might say the meaning of, and I associate them, I might say the meaning of children at play is the flavor of sardines.
But this... No, I'm sorry.
That's not what it means.
That may be my meaning, quote unquote, but it is not the meaning.
Right?
The meanings of things are...
The meanings of an awful lot of things are already there, right?
There are meanings and purposes
indwelling us, built into the fabric of our minds.
We've known this about purposes for a long time.
Natural teleology is a big theme in natural law theory, for example.
What is anger for?