All value is subjective and exists;
because humans exist and make that assessment!
"When we consider the world of existence, we find
that the essential reality underlying any given phenomenon is unknown.
Phenomenal, or created, things are known to us only by their attributes. Man
discerns only manifestations, or attributes, of objects, while the identity, or
reality, of them remains hidden. For example, we call this object a flower.
What do we understand by this name and title? We understand that the qualities
appertaining to this organism are perceptible to us, but the intrinsic
elemental reality, or identity, of it remains unknown. Its external appearance
and manifest attributes are knowable; but the inner being, the underlying
reality or intrinsic identity, is still beyond the ken and perception of our
human powers. Inasmuch as the realities of material phenomena are impenetrable
and unknowable and are only apprehended through their properties or qualities,
how much more this is true concerning the reality of Divinity, that holy
essential reality which transcends the plane and grasp of mind and man?"
And so it is - if we are to be fair
in our judgment - absurd to limit our understanding of economics to narrow and
limiting paradigms.
"That
which comes within human grasp is finite, and in relation to it we are infinite
because we can grasp it. Assuredly, the finite is lesser than the infinite; the
infinite is ever greater. If the reality of Divinity could be contained within
the grasp of human mind, it would after all be possessed of an intellectual
existence only -- a mere intellectual concept without extraneous existence, an
image or likeness which had come within the comprehension of finite intellect.
The mind of man would be transcendental thereto. How could it be possible that
an image which has only intellectual existence is the reality of Divinity,
which is infinite? Therefore, the reality of Divinity in its identity is beyond
the range of human intellection because the human mind, the human intellect,
the human thought are limited, whereas the reality of Divinity is unlimited.
How can the limited grasp the unlimited and transcend it? Impossible. The
unlimited always comprehends the limited. The limited can never comprehend,
surround nor take in the unlimited. Therefore, every concept of Divinity which
has come within the intellection of a human being is finite, or limited, and is
a pure product of imagination, whereas the reality of Divinity is holy and
sacred above and beyond all such concepts." Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 421)
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