The Birth of Tragedy is where he started, so that might be a good place to get stuck in. If you do you will need to check out Aristotle's The Poetics ...
That is ALWAYS my approach. It does take considerably more effort though. Meaning at least read something firsthand they have done before approaching ...
Husserl is someone whose works has only recently been unearthed. He wrote an exceptional amount much of which never saw the light of day until recentl...
This makes ethics essentially a meaningless term if it can mean anything. I cannot agree nor see the point in pretending to do this. Either way, if yo...
You are overextending quite a lot there! Haha! No one is an AN to that degree at all. That is not AN. I lost my 3000+ word essay on this subject unfor...
I can live with that. What kind of area would you say you are talking in? Is Moral Realism appropriate? Such categorising may be messy but it is usefu...
Surely you can see why I have problems untangling the meaning/position you are trying to convey here? Morality and the interplay of reason to distingu...
Because you were wrong. I will not interact with you any more. My post was directed at the others who failed to understand the AN position. I tried to...
Nonidentity is neither for nor against (it is not specific to AN either). It is the question of whether, or how, ethics can be applied to people who d...
Kant came up with intuitions for knowledge. Are you suggesting there are intuitions for ethics/morals? I would argue that if there are they are sittin...
I am still not really getting a clear idea of what is being pointed at by the phrase 'essence of religion'. Are you just saying that Ethics is the ess...
I was merely pointing out the gist not giving a thorough analysis. I pointed to the issue of non-identity (about which there are many positions) and a...
I as referring to the general AN positions not your personal ones. What I said outlined a couple of the main points AN puts forwards. I said no more t...
The sense in which I am using 'religiosity' has nothing much to do with theism. My perspective is anthropological/psychological in the sense I use tha...
Reasonable. Not entirely onboard with this. Husserl was aiming to create a 'science of consciousness' that stood apart from empirical science (a new s...
No. Framing the line questioning as a reasonable one is faulty. The mistake is believing it is a rational question. It makes rational sense to disting...
a) I do not think the question makes much sense rationally anyway. It just appears to be reasonable to ask about a 'reason for existence'. b) You now ...
I think I need to understand the use of 'rational' here too. If you are not being 'rational' then what are you being? Can you say anything worth liste...
I do not 'reject' them, just view them within their own jurisdiction. I do not 'outright' as all experiences have something to contribute to concepts ...
We can leave that for a another day. Too much of a tangent. I will have to give it go. Someone I know mentioned it a few years back in a very positive...
Strictly speaking this is only true beyond a certain point in juvenile development. We require nurturing. I do find a lot of eastern mysticism has a h...
The whole of the linguistic turn sent people running down roads that many have yet to return from. Husserl saw this and pointed it out. Heidegger - I ...
I do not understand what you are saying, and therefore cannot agree with it. I am not keen on religious doctrines posing as a philosophy of consciousn...
I have said for a long time that ethics is unethical and morality immoral ... it is only recently that I have started to wade through the jargon to fi...
I have my doubts here. Heidegger and Husserl parted ways because Heidegger hyper-focused in on hermeneutical form of phenomenology. Husserl was still ...
Can you expand on this? especially in reference to aesthetics. Are you stating that aesthetics are merely an expression of the natural condition just ...
This is a hard gap to cross as there are effectively no moral values we can hold outside of social framework. Perhaps all morals are, are instantiated...
I think it is more or less about feeling your around how other apply value to certain judgements in certain contexts compared to others. It is then ab...
Well, not really because you exist. I think we have to insist any AN statement adheres to their moral stance regarding nonidentity of possible future ...
You can guarantee less suffering by not bringing someone into the world. This is also underlined by the metaphysical problem of non-identity. Much lik...
I think I see what you are asking. The AN view is asking what right anyone has to create life if they know it will suffer. Below this isasymmetry argu...
Not to my understanding. Existing = Suffering < Neutral < Pleasure Not Existing = No Suffering/Neutral/ No Pleasure Only the latter guarantees No Suff...
Well, you kind of have to understand that position as framed in isolation. ANs are not against existence per se, but there is certainly a disjoint if ...
Because the AN basically believes that not suffering trumps not existing. It is certainly a factual claim that if you do not exist you do not suffer. ...
Death is an event that can shape the future. the live has more meaning on the future than your death, but nevertheless your impact will echo into the ...
It is a useful to consider antinatalism if you are planning to have children. The reason being it requires you to look at your inner motives and under...
@"Constance" I would enjoy to here what is meant by Religion and Religious here too? I think it pays to distinguish what we are talking about and it w...
I am on board with this, simple because if we refer to any totality it is the current totality we know. We cannot think beyond and to say 'beyond' is ...
I do not. This was a speculative statement. I did state sentience is not massively important to what I was focusing on here. My mistake. What I meant ...
I see no massive issue with equating them in this context (it is not really relevant as I am talking about something that is essentially capable of ne...
My point was more or less regarding the problems involved down the line if we are wrong and AGI still carries on carrying on out of our intelligible s...
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