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9-11: Was There an Alternative? by Noam Chomsky. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt. The Denia...

Nothing, oh wait Heidegger did that

To be fair, there are plenty of things to be distressed about that are found universally in every human life because they are structurally inherent to...

I kill myself instead lmao

I'm bored, and something's not quite right upstairs, I'm afraid.

Some of us are dealing with crap elsewhere and we don't have the time, energy or interest to participate here in depth.

The mind-body problem concerns the relationship of the mental with the not-mental. What you are suggesting is the possibility that fully knowing the p...

In my experience, drugs like alcohol can bring out parts of people that they usually keep hidden away, or try to repress. The person you know sober is...

Science is a tradition and because of this, it provides meaning to many people. Sometimes the zealous types get insulted when a comparison is drawn be...

From Laing's The Divided Self: "One's relationship to an organism is different from one's relationship to a person. One's description of the other as ...

Schopenhauer

Houellebecq says that for men, love is nothing more that gratitude for sexual pleasure. A good observation, I'd say.

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I would not believe anything, because I am asleep. That consciousness has been abruptly suspended does not mean the experience immediately preceding t...

All of the above?

The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer Neurosis and Human Growth by Karen Horney

I think you are correct that we can define it in different ways. But if we do actually define it, then presumably we have reasons for why we think thi...

To say something is better than something else seems to entail a measurement of perfection. If we assign a purpose or ultimate goal (also known as a t...

This does not seem obvious to me at all. I think it is true that laws exist to control the behavior of people, but under a more radical interpretation...

I need to know what you mean by "obvious drawbacks of anarchism" to respond appropriately.

I am an anarchist who desires the voluntary end of human existence. What are these obvious drawbacks you refer to?

Preferably, nothing.

But science was already very sophisticated by the time of Kant, and proved to be a reliable way of obtaining useful knowledge about the world. Althoug...

But really, the best argument against suicide is that you're not sure if suicide is the best course of action (otherwise you would not be making this ...

You might fuck it up. Also it's a terribly sad thing to do.

Yes, but it seems to me that non-existence can never be a bad thing for someone. One must exist to be harmed. And, as my thought process goes, if non-...

The Elementary Particles aka Atomized by Houellebecq was fantastic. Reading Submission now.

zomg philoso-memes, the new medium of critical thought

The Neuroscience of Religious Experience by Patrick McNamara The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq

Friend, this will cure your depression (or at least rejuvenate your sanguinity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfLHedBG1g

Death is really bad, but sometimes life is even worse.

Not with the population we have, the goals we aspire for and the values we uphold. It might be too late.

Whatever by Michel Houellebecq. Pensieri by Giacomo Leopardi.

No, I didn't vote. My reasoning by analogy: if you are overweight and in a Burger King, and you are pondering whether you should get a single pounder ...

My intellect says it's impossible to know, but my heart says there is no God.

Feelings, like pleasure or pain, are similar to hallucinations. There is no logical connection between a perceptual object and the affectivity associa...

R. D. Laing made the case in his book The Divided Self (which explores the developmental phenomenology of psychological phenomena, such as psychosis, ...

The new atheists are beating a dead horse and the neo-scholastics are trying to resuscitate it (that's my sweeping generalization of the situation).

Wait, isn't the Catholic Church the largest charitable organization in the world? Wasn't atheism state-enforced in Stalinist Russia? We can cherry-pic...

Varieties of Religious Experience by William James After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux (re-read, never finished previously) The Basic Kafka by Kafka...

I prefer philosophy undiluted and esoteric. I do think there are a small minority of people who really do "get it", but it's impossible as a principle...

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with what you wrote here, but want clarification. Aristotelian universals, as I understood them, exist and are in fact...

Here we go (again).

Some of the most inspiring individuals were those who didn't care if they died in the process. Why do we admire these heroes? Because they were not af...

I understand this. A charitable interpretation of hedonism also recognizes this. What folk "report as rewarding" they are reporting what makes them fe...

Why did you say that hedonism is an illusion, but then suggest that structuring life in such-and-such manner gives the "right general mix" (presumably...

Yeah, I get it. Feels like your mind is bruised. Apo, this doesn't make sense. To seek discomfort because things are "too comfortable" simply means to...

:ok: “I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.” -Nietzsche I'm finding it difficult to enjoy philosop...

How do we do this? Could it be that perfect moral goodness cannot exist?

Interesting post. My objection to P1 can be illustrated by objecting to this part of your argument. There are no perfect circles in the world. Every c...