And once again, optimism and pessimism are comparative terms. So your argument against antinatalism is based on a dubious empirical prediction about t...
The point is that it's actually not all that fun or meaningful, but a certain aesthetic can be cultivated in the absurdity alongside the occasional mo...
Except your revisionary history leaves out the pessimists of the ancient world...try again I guess. I don't expect it to be anything. That's you putti...
Antinatalism is never going to be accepted, so the next-best thing is to promote the legalization of assisted suicide for those who aren't satisfied w...
False dichotomy. This whole white-grey-black thing is an oversimplification. The good parts of life are not illusory (non-existent) themselves (rather...
But I never said I see only grey. And I never said the world was black through and through. I said it was structurally negative. Take, for example, ho...
If we ask ourselves, "what makes that telescope that particular telescope?", we have already assumed that there are such things as telescopes. We alre...
False. Getting real tired of you setting people up only to claim victory when you switch the bait. I have no idea what you mean when you say my percep...
But I don't see the world as generically grey, I see it as structurally black. How I act upon this belief is entirely different. There is nothing stop...
Mood enhancement is hardly a genuine solution to anything pessimism focuses on (or really anything for that matter, apart from maybe glaucoma or somet...
But why should I see this as the "height" of consciousness? Are you saying that this is consciousness at its most effective, as a well-oiled cog in th...
Isn't this just begging the question, though, by implicitly assuming consciousness is akin to the effects of a physical reaction? Consciousness isn't ...
If I may interject here, it seems to me that the job of the mind (or any organ for that matter) is to provide the organism the necessary nutrients to ...
I'm legitimately curious as to why you think it's alright to blatantly ignore everything I just wrote by pretending it's the words of a seasoned stone...
Empowering, yet false. Again this comes back to the whole schpeel about the requirement of illusions for personal security and optimism. Pessimism is ...
No, I think what makes pessimism so idiosyncratic is how easy and obvious it is but how paradoxically difficult it is to accept. Whereas other philoso...
Smoked some weed for the first time last night at a concert. Fun time, I understand now why it has such a good reputation. Living in Colorado definite...
I think the moral realism/anti-realism debate can be approached in a different angle: moral realists typically believe moral truths can be discovered,...
My position is that the common conception of morality is that morality is an objective and mind-independent source of guidelines for living, and that ...
Ideally, meta-ethics shouldn't interfere with the practice of normative ethics. We're moral beings, even if morality is ultimately groundless. We'll c...
The relevance is that morality by and large is phenomenologically experienced as a sort of command structure from elsewhere, a series of hypothetical ...
Because that's the whole issue at stake here, whether or not moral propositions are in some way dependent on the mind or not for their truth. People t...
I don't think there is any legitimate ground for the proposition that torturing children is wrong that isn't dependent on the mind, particularly the u...
It means that I have the preference, or attitude, that looks down on torturing children (non-cognitivism), or it means that I legitimately believe tha...
I deny the ultimate truth aptness of this claim. It's not that torturing children is actually okay or righteous, but that there is no actual real mora...
Dean Zimmerman has an interesting essay about what it would take and mean to survive after death. http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/zimmerman/pitsod.p...
But moral realism isn't simply about the semantics of normative propositions, otherwise there wouldn't be any difference between error theory and non-...
Yes, indeed, one of the most deceptive aspects of positive psychology is the emphasis on the apparent compatibility between freedom and happiness (and...
For as much time as I spend reading and studying metaphysics, I have a comparatively low amount of metaphysical commitments. Those that I do have don'...
If the religious folks are right, then the continuation of the species might have a reason going for it. But religious ethics is nevertheless almost u...
Essentially, yes. Nietzsche's Will-to-Power, a supposed-denial of the Will is nevertheless a form of willing (even Schopenhauer recognized this when h...
One can also go the path of questioning whether institutions, hierarchies, governments, etc are justified to begin with. Is any harm or manipulation o...
Right, but to live in society requires one to make compromises. I could just as easily say that I am offended and scared by followers of x-religion, a...
To ask such a question seems to presuppose not only that we have an adequate understanding of what personal identity is, but also that personal identi...
I suspect this may be the case. Yes, interesting point. It is quite strange that we normally would be insulted by an attack on our personal dignity (s...
Story time! I've actually been interested in the problem of universals for a while now, it was my very first substantial issue introduced to me when I...
It means I'm not a nominalist. I'm not sure what universals exist or how they instantiate themselves but I do believe that universals do actually exis...
No, because it begs the question. You claim one cannot understand God's mind. Yet by saying so, you claim to understand an aspect of God's mind - it's...
Some of us might be willing to bite the bullet and accept that the serial murderer's apparent happiness is "good" - at least, it's intrinsically good ...
But evidence is only strong when it is pieced together through rational deliberation. Observation doesn't just magically lead to knowledge. What we pe...
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