David Hume once argued that morality could not be the product of pure reason on the grounds that reason is indicative whereas morality is imperative. What this basically means is that reason cannot move someone to choose between alternatives; it can only present and define the alternatives themselves. I once read an author of similar opinion who said that, while reason is invaluable for defining and evaluating ethical alternatives, it is little to no help in actually moving men to carry out those ethical decisions. The decision itself, said he, was the result of man's native drives (after proper conditioning, that is).
Though these authors were writing about ethics, I think that their insights can be applied to our present inquiry: worldview selection (and indeed, if it is decided that everything is meaningless, such a decision is bound to have a huge impact on the field of ethics). Reason may tell us when one worldview is right and another is wrong, but only objective values can move us to choose one over the other.
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