Andrew4Handel

Why would it take a whole book to make an argument against a straightforward premise? You sound like you teach English but most people don't and don't...

How does it offer to refute solipsism and do you have to read the entire novel to find this out? Do you think that most people who read the novel are ...

If society is based on consensuses I wouldn't call that subjective meaning or entirely fiction. I would agree society is based on fictions but I don't...

I feel that he is saying that the self is everything we know. Knowledge is part of the self and new knowledge is contained in the self. Maybe he is sa...

I don't know if wanting to die is the same as wanting to cease to exist. Death seems like it could be a pain killer but if you are dead then you won't...

My idea of a philosophical novel is one that makes a clear proposition or arguments and defends it. I think any novel can feel philosophical or inspir...

A problem I have had with fiction is that it seems like lying. You are making people feel things based on events that did not happen. Even Autobiograp...

How can a society be based on subjective meaning?

An impediment to getting a message a cross is if the reader is bored. I don't think you can blame people if they are bored or uninterested in a novel ...

I think the point of writing a novel is to entertain people in some way.If you wanted to inform someone you could write something factual or write a p...

I don't see how you know objective meaning doesn't exist yet you know subjective meaning exists. I think when people say they find meaning in X they a...

I think you are doing what I mentioned earlier with Bitter Crank which is disappearing into the mystery of the mind. If by subjective you mean the con...

It seems rather bizarre that organisms would come to exist that are immensely complicated but with no purpose driving it. And these organism have elab...

If there is a reason to continue existing there is a reason to continue existing. If there is no reason for you to continue to exist there is no reaso...

I think you are treating humans as separate from nature if you criticize or moralize about their behaviour. We don't criticize a lion for eating a wil...

Hitler is probably the ultimate example of someone making and living their own meaning in a large way. He had a whole ideology, architecture, music,ga...

There is the value problem in meaning. Hitler seemed to have a lot of meaning and purpose in his life to the point he controlled a large army and seve...

Evolution seeks to explain characteristics or attributes we have in terms of evolutionary usefulness. These are expected to determine some or all of o...

This depends on what the mind actually is. And what is in your mind where does that come from?

I think our parents have already played God and we are here because of their motivations or actions. My parents are very religious Christians who made...

I think trying to understand and explore the universe could be meaningful if that was humanities main goal. But there is too much other stuff going on...

I think evolution is a claim of objective meaning where evolutionary theorist seek to explain life from a fixed or lawful paradigm. If the only reason...

I was saying objective meaning would be the equivalent to finding the everyone needs a heart to live. Maybe someone could see we all need love and we ...

If the universe does not contain meaning where are you getting the meaning from? Something from nothing? I think whatever we find meaningful is inevit...

I thinking an objective meaning would be applicable to everyone. The objective meaning would fail if it didn't apply to everyone. For example every hu...

One objection to objective meaning I have heard is that it stops us from making our own meaning or is deterministic. This is an Objection to a gods me...

I feel that either life has an objective meaning or it has no meaning. It can be a quagmire to define meaning but here I am referring to life having a...

I have a lot of self doubt. I am also quite critical of other peoples writing.

I think what constitutes a good novel may be entirely subjective. I don't think people should have to struggle though a classic if they are not enjoyi...

It would be more something like this. "Matthew stared at the at the heap of papers on his desk. It suddenly struck him that maybe this was all complet...

I read it years ago before I study philosophy. I cannot remember much of it. Can you cite specific philosophical point made in it? What was its stance...

My theme would probably involve some kind of journey and an introspection on one's mental states and place in reality. It would probably involve someo...

When I say "You" I mean "a person" or "One" but I find the use of "one" quite archaic. Like the Queen talking of "One's subjects"

I think if there is no meaning to existence then that could be deeply problematic. I think societies survive by enforcing meanings and reaching some k...

I suppose that an experience of pleasure could be inherently meaningful partly because when we are in a state of pleasure we are less likely to seek f...

I think if you are going to write a book it should offer a new perspective or be a modern take on something old. I am interested in The Self and I hav...

Did the authors explicitly claim to be exploring a well known philosophical issue? Like Morality without God. Theism vs Atheism. The meaning of Langua...

I think Alice in Wonderland is great for stimulating the imagination. I quite like that format each scenario and character interaction provokes the im...

Are these novelists explicitly philosophical?

What is a novel and fiction anyway?

This is the kind of claim you find evidence for. I cited my own experience here. But there is a lot of historical and current day evidence. Today mill...

It seems to me that humans are the only creatures that can have religions and have deities and have an imagination to imagine things that aren't there...

Here is a harrowing, shocking documentary of the modern day impact of the commandment to kill witches on Africa's most vulnerable children. https://ww...

We don't know what the word Witch meant when this was written. But if you want to have a death penalty commandment it would be unjust to use a vague t...

I have no problem with the idea that atheists reached their position based on weak arguments etc. I know from my own experience that I was immensely f...

In the bible it says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" I don't know how you can interpret a bald statement like that, or a commandment and it is...

I'm an agnostic. I can't believe something I have no evidence for. If I don't understand something then I do not make a claim about what is behind tha...

Something could be completely consistent but untrue. If the bible never contradicted itself that would not entail that it was true. I think the proble...

I don't understand why people would believe in things that there was no evidence for. If you went on the evidence alone then it would be hard to justi...

By truth I mean the factual. Factual claims. Factual values. I think that most historical atrocities have some relation to false truth assertions.I am...