Think in terms of formal purpose, Ramoss. The formal purpose of a hammer is to drive nails. You could use it for some other purpose, which we can label as "subjective" (knocking someone in the head with it, for example)but that would not be its formal purpose.
Robin,
I'm still having trouble seeing the connection of formal purpose being implying, entailing, whatever "objectivity".
I want to drive nails and tire of whacking them with a rock which takes a long time. Using a combination of a lever (the handle) attached to a hard weighted shaped head I discover that nails go in faster with less effort on my part. I'm satisfied with my tools. It's an extension of my arm that multiplies the force and adds a capability that flesh and bone doesn't have vis a vis driving nails, or breaking head, eggs, rocks, etc.
What is objective about this? My purpose is subjective. I want to build a house, or fence and needed something to better drive the nails with. Let's say a hammer escapes from an astronauts hand and somehow is picked up floating in space by an alien would they know what it was?
It seems like the purpose of the hammer is as subjective as anything else I intend. I would say meaning is subjective. The objective lacks meaning. It can be measured and described but what is the meaning of a proton? Of a star?
If you ask "What is the meaning of my life". You are making your life an object, or making your self an object. You seem to being saying that if God exists and created me than I am an object for God. But what about my subjectivity? My sense of "I am" that I relate to the objects that I am aware of?
Hence, though Arach has offered alternate translations, God tells Moses that his name is "I am that I am". So it would appear God has no purpose. But if we are then do we have a purpose? Did God make us in his image? Or did we make God(s) in our image and then make up the story that He made us?
Who am I? Is the question. But who asks the question is always subject regarding a wide range of possible objects. What if we are the source of meaning? Can the source of meaning have meaning? Perhaps to be meaningless is To Be?
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