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The Fascism This Time, Theo Horesh. Also Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. Cannot read it right now, the copy I got has so many notes on every page th...

Why is it so difficult to pin down what makes a life good? Why is it the case that countless pages have been written on this topic (in philosophy, poe...

That's cool, had no idea you had that deep of a background in RPGs. I played 5e off and on through college and afterwards; I was a DM for a Star Wars ...

Wait, so let me get this straight: Journalists, with no expertise in the field they are reporting, can publish inaccurate articles, and may even do so...

Looks good, I love roasted kale with olive oil and salt. DnD, Shadowrun...? I got into 5e back in college; during the pandemic I played some virtually...

Yeah, my argument rests on the absurdity of someone having a good life when they don't recognize it as such. The very possibility of doubting the good...

Very interesting, thanks.

American Extremist: The Psychology of Political Extremism, Josh Neal. Well, I'm an idiot, that guy's a white supremacist :vomit: Neither could I, it w...

Indeed, though one objection, and I mean no offense, but wrapping a word in quotes makes it suspiciously imprecise. Either someone is forced to live b...

For what reason can it not be said how much the pain hurts, as a matter of fact?

There is a long history of debate about what qualifies as a good life, but what I have not seen much of is a meta-analysis of the debate itself; we de...

So yeah, it's as @"schopenhauer1" alluded to earlier, if the value of something is entirely subjective, then there won't be any sense in which we can ...

It might not be absurd for someone to hold a socially-conditioned belief (i.e. we can make sense of why they believe what they believe), but it does n...

Yes. Just as Stacey must believe that Paul is her boyfriend in order for Paul to be her boyfriend, Stacey must believe that she has a good life in ord...

Yeah, I wasn't able to follow your objection, can you clarify it?

No, they'll figure out some reason to be against it. :up:

An interesting question, something I have also wondered a lot about too :up: Fundamentally, I believe it is an issue with technology, and not just thi...

This is not as controversial as you might think. Against the Grain has already been mentioned, fantastic book. After the Ice is another which explicit...

Castle to Castle, Céline. The Murder of Professor Schlick: the Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, David Edmonds.

I am preaching to the choir here, but procreation is taken to be a sacred activity. Having children is taken to be one of the most critical and sublim...

Not sure I follow, my point was that both Stacey having a boyfriend and having a good life depend on objective and subjective components.

I started off with the assumption that it seemed obvious that it does entail this recognition, though it seems not everyone agrees. Consider the propo...

Okay, so you disagree with the initial premise. I never argued for it, that's fair. I did not include the possibility that utterances about life might...

Probably not poetry, but lyrical nonetheless and one of the most profound pieces I have ever read.

Sorry, I don't mean to be flippant or rude, but I don't understand your objection. What do you find problematic about the idea that, while we can't ha...

I don't think that's a charitable interpretation of my argument. I said a complete representation of a good life will forever remain a mystery. This d...

I don't know if that is the case. From my perspective, believing that one has a good life is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of having a go...

Nonsensical in what way?

That consequentialism can entail treating people as means rather than ends, and that this is absolutely valid in some situations, demonstrates the imp...

I think this would entail absurd conclusions. Firstly some degree of subjective satisfaction with ones' life does seem to be essential to having a goo...

What does it matter if most people would equate the good life with liking life, if we have good reasons to think that the good life is more than just ...

You could apply that skeptical regress to just about anything. That because I don't know absolutely 100% without-a-doubt that something is the case sh...

I guess they could utter that, but I would expect there to be various contradictions and absurdities in the proposition itself, if it were to be analy...

Another line of reasoning: 1. It is necessary but not sufficient to have a justified true belief that one has a good life in order to have a good life...

I have already read past the first book of the Transcendental Analytic, though the consolidation of my notes is lagging a bit. Transcendental Logic. F...

One of the better introductions I have read about philosophy of mind was written by E. J. Lowe. I really do not recommend you purchase any of these so...

The book is wild, loving it.

Neuromancer, William Gibson

@"schopenhauer1" any thoughts to add?

There are better presentations of the same ideas. Gary's funny sometimes in his lack of self-awareness, though. The actual arguments themselves are st...

It's pretty cringe, like any YouTube-based philosophy.

:up:

The ambiguity of what either one is, is part of the argument (points 2 & 3). We can say some things about what a good life is (that it is worth living...

I might add an additional premise: a bad life is whatever is not a good life; the set containing the attributes of a good life is finite, while the se...

And you are free to disagree with that premise, though I haven't a clue why you would.

I raised a similar point about this same issue here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11642/the-critique-of-pure-reason-discussion-and-readin...

THs do, apparently

Look, people have this habit of trying to fix things that they don't understand or have any good reason to be messing around with. There's this notion...

It's naive and arrogant.

I'm confused by your comment, not sure what it means.