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Gotterdammerung

['Member']Joined: August 11, 2017 at 10:25Last active: August 30, 2017 at 02:411 discussions14 comments

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Allways willing to be wrong

Favourite Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus

Favourite Quotations

"To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy."
-Schopenhauer

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act of rebellion"
-Camus

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In: Purpose of life! But why do we choose to continue it?  — view comment
@"Noble Dust"@"darthbarracuda" If you read the confessions to its end you will find that Tolstoy comes to quite a different conclusion to that which h...
August 28, 2017 at 09:32
In: Hermits  — view comment
https://youtu.be/C5SwcrVnyLc
August 28, 2017 at 08:15
In: Hermits  — view comment
Huh...Sounds like me :-# Not really. Although I certainly find solitude attractive and never seem to get enough of it. On the other hand i hear that t...
August 28, 2017 at 08:12
In: What is motivation?  — view comment
@"Napoleon Bonaparte" Hmm interesting idea.... what this quote also Demontrates is that if it is indeed possible for an action to be done, unless we h...
August 28, 2017 at 04:36
In: What is motivation?  — view comment
@"schopenhauer1" This sounds about right. I think im right in saying that the motivation to surrvive can be called the Schopenhauerian will to life. I...
August 27, 2017 at 22:49
In: We need a complete rupture and departure  — view comment
@"Posty McPostface" Woops totally meant to post that on the American school sytem thread. Im smart :s
August 25, 2017 at 06:23
In: We need a complete rupture and departure  — view comment
@"Posty McPostface" Completely agree with you we cant impose wisdom/knowledge and im not saying that we should. It wouldnt be very wise. But i think t...
August 25, 2017 at 05:58
In: The American Education System is Failing their Students  — view comment
Perhaps the system is failing because the expectation is that education = Job. That is the aim of modern education to pull people out of poverty or ba...
August 25, 2017 at 05:38
In: Living with Ethical Nihilism in everyday life  — view comment
@"Wayfarer" Although i would suggest that people often blurr Moral Nihilism with Nihilism. It is possible to be a moral nihilist withput bein nihilist...
August 24, 2017 at 22:51
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
"To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in pe...
August 18, 2017 at 05:34
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
@"Thorongil" No the third alternative is that neither heavan or hell exist. I do not need to claim like sartre that hell is other people, hell just do...
August 12, 2017 at 03:28
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
@"Thorongil" Yor point about eternal hell does araise serios questions about procreation. If it is in anyway possible that two people may create a new...
August 11, 2017 at 23:48
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
@"Agustino" I am not familiar with the horse forgive me of my ignorance. It feels condescending of us however to judge the actions of people who have ...
August 11, 2017 at 11:28
In: Who do you still admire?  — view comment
@"Agustino" I dont think Aquinas Kierkegaard or Socrates would want to be considered "righteous" What is righteous anyway? And whos righteousness. Im ...
August 11, 2017 at 11:03
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