Life of Pi

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Bong Lover said:

As I pointed out, the bolded objectivist view is in obvious conflict with the book. I don't know that it makes much sense to go into a discussion of the merits of that world view in the context of the book. Obviously the point of the book is to offer an alternative to this stringent interpretations of reality. Not necessarily to reject that reality exsists outside of our perception, but rather to allow for stories and imagination in how we interact with reality.

The book doesn't make any assertions on what story is 'true'. It is not the point of the book. It's quite possible that Pi knows that the story of Richard Parker is fictious, and yet decides to tell it anyway. It is also quite possible that the story of Richard Parker is true, and the more believable tale is made up by the way. After all, it's just a book and none of the stories are really true.

If you choose to read the book as an invitation to disregard what happens and make up your own story and go with it I think you are missing the point of it. Also, as I am sure you are aware of, your assumption that reality is not subjective is just an assumption. It can never be proved or disproved and is of course one of the major topics of philosophy.

The worldview presented in the book is a bunch of nonsense, that's not even worth taking into consideration. I was going by the structure of the book, and what it was trying to say. It supports delision (which is also what this dangerous worldview it promotes does).

Let's have an experiment. Shoot surself and see whether or not your death is objective.