Whether a life is worth living is not empirical. It always means is my life worth living to me. Thus it is an existential question, which can only be determined by me examining my life. Thus if my life is not examined by me, it is not worth living. — Landru Guide Us
I don't understand the distinction you're making, RN. — Landru Guide Us
For a person to live a life worth living, it has to be worth living for that person, not for some third-party observer (who does not and cannot live that life), and that requires self-examination. — Landru Guide Us
There is no need to examine my life and evaluate it as being worth living, I merely have to feel that it is worth living for it to be, by definition, worth living. — John
↪Bitter Crank This all sounds like the examined life to me, simply characterized after the fact as not examined. — Landru Guide Us
So you can't preflectively tell the difference between generally feeling good and generally feeling bad? — John
You don't have an immediate general feeling about your life? — John
Yes. MY life has been examined. Yes, there are lives that are worth living which have not been examined, either by 'feeling' ok about it or by taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Life Examination Inventory. — Bitter Crank
↪Landru Guide Us Evidently, not what you think it does. You can assert otherwise until the cows come home, but that won't make it so. — Sapientia
I think you're stymied. Now, what does the feeling that your life is worth living entail? Describe it without examination of said life. — Landru Guide Us
Like John said, the feeling that my life is worth living doesn't depend on my describing it... — Sapientia
Sure it does. — Landru Guide Us
That's the difference between the ontic and the ontological. — Landru Guide Us
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