(I am not sure whether your claim is compatible with nihilism. I am not an expert on nihilism.)
I think it should be, though a nihilist probably doesn’t care because it doesn’t mean anything anyway.
As far as I can see, this fails to cross the is-ought divide. The existentialist would agree that living beings have been shaped by evolution, and that this could in some sense be called a “purpose”, but each of us still can and must choose our own purpose.
Can you say more? I personally dissolved my original is-ought confusion a while ago and I’m not sure sure what you mean by failing to cross the divide.
My guess is you’re talking about the metaphysical kind of divide many people put between is and ought, treating them as fundamentally different things? If so, I’d just say we don’t know. What I know is that I know is from what I observe, and I know ought from what I expect, and these are both known through beliefs, which are all one kind of thing, and the only divide is in how I relate to certain beliefs as observations vs. expectations.
I think it should be, though a nihilist probably doesn’t care because it doesn’t mean anything anyway.
Can you say more? I personally dissolved my original is-ought confusion a while ago and I’m not sure sure what you mean by failing to cross the divide.
My guess is you’re talking about the metaphysical kind of divide many people put between is and ought, treating them as fundamentally different things? If so, I’d just say we don’t know. What I know is that I know is from what I observe, and I know ought from what I expect, and these are both known through beliefs, which are all one kind of thing, and the only divide is in how I relate to certain beliefs as observations vs. expectations.