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Yes, but why is survival automatically something we ought to cherish? You're right that suffering is necessary for survival, but this is exactly the p...

It seems to me like this is only workable if one makes a wholly different notion of what "materialism" is supposed to entail. Dennett's not an elimina...

For what it's worth, I understand the appeal to reductionist accounts of mind like Dennett's (no spooky shit), but in general agree that these theorie...

A problem with Wittgensteinean quietism is one that infects basically any attempt to disavow philosophy as we know it ("anti-philosophy") - that the v...

Zing! >:O

Have fun sleeping in apo la-la land.

What we have here is yet another false dichotomy you've set up. You don't need any sort of Platonic "good" to reject your version of naturalism. Nowhe...

Cabrera cites Nietzsche as an example of a negative philosopher who nevertheless "affirms" life, but not through rationalist argumentation. Nietzsche ...

I'm not complaining about esoteric scientific jargon itself, I'm pointing out that the few people you communicate to on this forum are not scientists ...

And here you are, on an internet forum with a population of less than thirty people. Congratulations.

Or, you could just not use pleonastic terminology.

What does it mean, exactly, when you say you start with a head full of every kind of possibility? Do you mean to say that literally every sort of poss...

Yeah, Cabrera's book is more meta-ethical and meta-philosophical than normative or applied ethics. He has some things about how you shouldn't kill any...

Interesting. I can see how much of our awareness is all about what doesn't work, like Heidegger's broken tool analogy. We are most aware of that which...

We keep going, don't stop running They keep selling, we don't want it So close to it almost found a way Two steps closer, they keep coming We keep yel...

I'll quote at length before adding my own thoughts: ___________________________________________________________________ The affirmative narrative is t...

Probably my self-esteem. Like basically everyone.

I mean, solipsism is one of those annoying philosophical positions that get in the way of affirmative progress. Even if they're wrong, it says a lot a...

Nah, you're just missing the point by a mile. Oh well.

False. A moral agent can be rational without having affirmative values, so long as they're willing to look beyond their irrational vital impulses.

I mean, I am a consequentialist. I'm not exactly going to endorse paradoxical agent-centered restrictions.

"Naturalism" is the buzzword you use to describe anything you personally advocate. It's not as if all naturalists automatically believe everything you...

Greatest game I've ever played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknjE2SBPxw

Wait, what argument?

mkay, as I suspected you respond to nothing and redirect the blame onto others. Good job!

Is this just an approximate opinion? An approximate opinion that everything is just an approximate opinion?

Was exactly my thought, BC. Any all-encompassing metaphysical position has to be able to account for itself.

I mean, this has been a major topic investigated by existentialists and phenomenologists. Levinas, for example, specifically analyzes transcendence as...

Now you're thinking more pessimistically!

One of the nice things about being a pessimist is that you have nothing to lose if you're wrong.

Goddammit CDPR, where the fuck is Cyberpunk 2077?! (Just kidding, please take all the time you need and don't rush it.)

Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality by Douglas Portmore

These guys killed it live at concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWc9hvNV3ko

I don't think it's the naturalistic fallacy. Under that logic, you could say that the instinctual aversion to tall cliffs doesn't cut it, or that the ...

I'm not sure I follow.

I also failed to mention that a major part of my "reason" to live has to do with a personal commitment to the welfare of sentient organisms, particula...

Curiosity, a fear of death, the aesthetic of a spontaneous explorer, and the attitude of "modest arrogance", i.e. I'm sticking around to see if anyone...

An issue I see with this is that is seems to require a nostalgia for pre-Industrial history, before there were such things as nukes and pandemics. Now...

Reminds me of a quote from Thomas Ligotti's Conspiracy Against the Human Race: It reminds you of some people on this forum, doesn't it? Yes, it's as i...

I would say that this is one of the few issues I truly have with Schopenhauer's philosophy. He accepts that the justification of life is not easy, and...

^Apple user...lmfao this is so petty.

What's your point, exactly? You haven't refuted shit. I have very little respect for your obsessive devotion to a metaphysics that has not relevance t...

But not the sort of metaphysics you seem to be invested in or expect from this discussion. Phenomenology is front-and-center here. How humans are affe...

Nope, once again you fail to grasp the simplicity of my position. It's not supposed to be metaphysical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRMyYP3T0NE

I would say that it shows that there never "was" a Ship of Theseus in the material sense, because the existence of relations makes material compositio...

I would say you're equivocating here and getting dangerously close to the naturalistic fallacy. Being able to live long enough to pass on one's genes ...

Alright, I'll try. We're "meant" to survive in a hostile world, as I've already said. Flourishing is contingent and transitory with no guarantees of s...

As have I, when I said the zombies will inherit the Earth. But you didn't like that description that much... Even if antinatalism is pragmatically sel...

If you think that's the best course of action for me, then I'm already doing that. Although I try not to be too much of a drag.