Elevated-Significance Affirming Belief System
An Elevated-Significance Affirming Belief System is a belief system that affirms the significance of life beyond the everyday.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be held by an Elevated-Significance Practitioner.
- It can (typically) be used to inform Elevated-Significance Practices.
- It can range from being based on Ideological Traditions.
- It can be a source of guidance, meaning, and purpose.
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- Example(s):
- an Informal Personal Ideology, such as:
- Religious Ideology, such as:
- Buddhism, which affirms the significance of compassion, mindfulness, and the path to enlightenment.
- Christianity, which provides a sense of purpose in following the teachings of Christ.
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- Philosophical Social Ideology, such as:
- Stoicism, which values virtue, wisdom, and acceptance of the nature of life.
- Existentialism, which emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice.
- Humanism, which affirms the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively.
- Effective Altruism, which prioritizes actions that have the most positive impact on the world.
- Transhumanism, which advocates for the use of technology to enhance human condition.
- Consequentialist Aesthetism, which affirms the significance of beauty and aesthetics based on their consequences.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Scientific Method, a systematic approach for investigating natural phenomena which is not typically used to affirm the significance of life.
- Capitalism, an economic system based on private ownership, which is primarily concerned with material wealth rather than affirming the significance of life.
- Nihilism, a belief that denies any objective basis for life's significance.
- See: Elevated-Significance Practice, Worldview, Religious Belief, Spiritual Belief, Philosophical Belief, Moral System.