Can the rational thinker legitimately believe in subjective value?
You wrote: “Any rational thinker agrees that scientific thought is superior to superstitious belief. When the scientific thinker analyzes the material object, the scientific thinker will always conclude the object consists of absolute quantifiable properties and characteristics.” That is what I detest about Determinism. They leave out the metaphysics. Or rather, they think they do, but it is impossible to make a statement like “there is no such thing as ‘soul’ or ‘free will'” without making a metaphysical statement. The metaphysics they reject is the metaphysics of supernaturality. I also reject the supernatural, but I can still affix metaphysical value to “soul” and “free will” and keep it “natural.” This can be done objectively. For example, free will has been adequately defined as the freedom to think—or not. And that is objective. The soul is self-evident no matter what you call it, even if you only say it is the emotional or physical feelings you get when your physiology as desc
