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There are other things about Rand's philosophy that don't stand the test of time. The ideas that were associated with imperialism, nationalism, racism...

Make it a completely legal process at every step. No detainment or forced treatment unless the person commits a serious criminal act, especially not a...

There are some interesting points in your reply. There is a lot to argue against psychiatry. It represents quite a powerful influence and is connected...

How were Trump's claims of election fraud based on reason and facts?

It's possibly complicated, but I look at it as something fairly simple. At bottom I think people are basically irrational. With effort we can train ou...

Socrates used logic but was not rational in the sense that he was often challenging the basic ideas of Athenian society. It is fundamentally irrationa...

I'll attempt two definitions one "irrational" and another "rational". Irrational: Rationality is conformity in thought and action to socially construc...

I've always been attracted to the idea that things are not how they seem. I think it is possible that the material reality we observe is only one laye...

A variety of things. It can be considered a type of passion such as being persistent about an argument. It can be considered the opposite of reason. I...

That's my excuse.

This is the fun with metaphor, that a seemingly unrelated object is used to make a point or to superimpose some quality from one disparate thing onto ...

Maybe in an extremely technical sense it is a difficult question, but the simple semantic meaning of irrationality conforms to that simple formula.

Yes, ironically, I do not find chess interesting, but I find philosophy interesting and think the two are similar.

"it takes two to tango", "philosophy most often is a solitary activity (it can be done alone)" Tango=/=philosophy Chess takes two players as well, but...

Of course, there are non-dialectical methods of philosophy that are not argumentative, but as you say this uncertainty surrounding the making of decis...

Q=B+C did I know? Yes, it is an observation I have made before. Does it fit here that rationality + denial (or its negation) = irrationality. I think ...

That's the typical way ideas are presented. Consider that your opening set of moves. If your idea is well thought out to begin with, concept is suppor...

This post is meant to be fun, but there is a serious component in the metaphor of chess for philosophy. I have a sort of platonic perception of the fo...

Im not sure how deep the metaphor goes but the pawn/fact is related to the concept/king. The bishop/ reason is attacking a fact in defence of the conc...

thanks, Rationality=reason=logic=bishop

To claim that there is a reality about any text that is not interpretive is not in the established nihilist tradition. That there is a reality indepen...

", just calling you out on your conspicuously uniformed m misinterpretations of Camus and the other philosophers you've mentioned, misinterpretations ...

I see this post has aggro'ed you for some reason. Possibly it is because you think I have not given the author his due, in term of diligence in giving...

The major theme of nihilist thinking is anti-totalitarian, anti-tyranny. Psychiatry, like policing or education etc. operates innocently. But the conc...

Could be. Nature seems to exist for itself, so it is possible that nihilist angst isn't really about meaninglessness but against meanings. This is nua...

Maybe it does suggest more causative power than it has, but perhaps a more realistic diminishing of this effect by saying that the philosophy causes m...

What citation can you provide to substantiate that this is how nihilism functions in practice? I think most forms of hard nihilism are more likely to ...

All depends on what you mean by antisocial. This forum is a kind of community which depends on people following all sorts of rules and codes. Let's sa...

I'm not sure if you are being deliberately contrarian, feigning ignorance or are just a little naive, but nihilism is tied with a number of abnormal p...

The key ones here are health, order, and rationality (reason). Nihilists consider the things people take very seriously as nothing. The moral argument...

To answer my own question: yes, of course Camus makes sense. His writing on absurdity is cogent. But to answer my own argument, I still don't think th...

Thanks everyone for your comments. Despite objections I still hold my ground that in the recent history of nihilism Camus' philosophy is disempowering...

I guess I didn't express myself clearly enough in this post. The basic idea I tried to present was that if the death of god make's life meaningless/ p...

Seems like this post is not well recieved. The question is whether someone who accepts absurdity is ultimately choosing not to kill oneself and in the...

Re: natural law. Whether something is immoral does have a sort of objectivity to nature. Just as putting your hand on a hot stove has immediate discip...

Very nice question. My answer is that we dont live in a moral universe. I doubt there is an objective morality given that the universe doesn't offer a...

There is nothing positively good about democracy. It provides a good mechanism for a utilitarian style system(the greatest happiness for greatest numb...

Sorry I work a day job and didn't have time to respond. I wasn't thinking of presentism, although that is interesting. It's actually a very complex re...

Yep, some of that soul is in me. I have proved to be too good at learning for my own good, and pieces of psycho-babble have made an impression on me. ...

I'm pretty interested in this kind of thing, but I found no meaning in her playing the flute.

Would it be so terrible if you wish to avoid confrontation to generate less one-sided responses. I have made my post one-sided which any good argument...

I don't know you well enough to say something that might be understandable to you, but I think you have identified the central idea to this situation ...

Definitely agree with the direction of your inquiry. In both cases the killer has an irrational inner voice that leads to the crime.

The argument simplified is the body's medicine for its soul (laughter or philosophy) is against psychiatry (medicine for the soul). The medicine for t...

That is a nice irony! Is that a point made in the book, or your own? The question I'm asking "who made who" is just to reinforce which body is host an...

There is something to be said about the interplay of symbols in cultural life. In an important event like a state funeral, all the symbols are on poin...

Although it is difficult to completely disprove determinism, deterministic possibilities like predestination are extremely unlikely. It is a common de...

Predestination is one form of determinism and really relates to religious discussions of the topic of free will, whereas most philosophical discussion...

I can think of symbolically related scenarios. The whole scientific promethius of so called advanced societies are breaking a hole through the dome of...

Well I think it is an ironic reading of Deleuze when you take away the opposite of what is intended. Definitely the expectation is that someone who un...