The point of phenomenology is not to evaluate your own personal experiences but to make a science of consciousness, i.e. to create a generalized accou...
Your namesake was a philosopher and yet his evaluations of the human condition were more empirical than anything else. It is an empirical issue whethe...
Indeed, I have wondered about this myself. What if there is a non-agential good that really ought to be cultivated? To everyone else who calls themsel...
Minimum morals are the laws you have in your community. Laws pertaining to theft, murder, assault, etc. Typically they tell you what you cannot do, al...
The government should, in my opinion, make the laws that constitute the minimum moral expectations of a citizen. Even if being a moral saint is unatta...
Indeed, it is, but this also falls into the Tu quoque fallacy. Life is problematic, and even Cioran himself wondered why he hadn't killed himself yet....
I think naturalistic moral realism isn't very convincing. And I'm not a theist or mystic. So I'm not too sure about moral realism in general. But what...
Well, nothing else I could think of really made as much sense. Yes, I doubt it can be achieved. In fact I think aesthetically-authentic eudaimonia is ...
Eudaimonia would be the only perfect experience, and thus the only perfectly good experience. The attainment of all goals, or the anticipation of doin...
I wouldn't say you're a suffering-focused ethicist, more like a suffering-prioritizing ethicist. I agree that compassion is the source of morality, in...
Yes, philosophy has had a major impact in my life. It has changed it radically and filled a gap that I had previously sensed was missing and could not...
Some more thoughts on this: Pleasures and pains seem to be connected to the resolution of problems. Of course, one can stimulate the brain and produce...
Right, that's exactly why I mentioned originally how the desire-view was similar to nominalism - our desires don't make things pleasurable, things are...
In my view, there is static, unchanging substance (or Being), and all of flux has Being, and flux results in the particles we're talking about. When w...
Another thing about pain and pleasure is that people can be instrumentalized when they suffer, but they cannot be instrumentalized when they experienc...
So there is a tension between the bottom-up causality of material and efficient causes and the top-down causality of formal and final causation. I can...
In the sense that A causes B, what makes it the case that A causes B? If it is not an internal power or disposition, but rather an external contextual...
Pleasure might be able to be characterized as an attitude we have towards a certain experience, one in which we wish the experience to continue. Certa...
Did Aristotle argue for self-generalizing habits? I thought that was Peirce's addition - after all, Aristotle did think the universe was eternal if I ...
Another thing to point out here is that philosophical pessimists generally don't consider themselves "pessimistic", they consider themselves first-and...
This is what Chalmers calls don't-have-a-clue-materialism: "I don’t have a clue about consciousness. It seems utterly mysterious to me. But it must be...
Christoph Fehige argues: Orexigenic cases are those in which a preference exists and is satisfied. Prophylactic cases are those in which a preference ...
The question, though, is whether or not the satisfaction of a desire is always equally valuable as the lack of any desire in the first place. I think ...
Yeah. Desires cause stress. The problem I see with this view is that it basically means all pleasure is bad, because pleasure is inherently tied to de...
Concerns and abilities go hand in hand. We have abilities to satisfy concerns. Most of our concerns can be relatively easily met - food, drink, shelte...
Why are you assuming I'm not active? I'm extremely active. I care about suffering, and I do things to care for those who are suffering as a result. I ...
This isn't this kind of debate apo. I'm saying that the structure of life as we know it has components that nevertheless make the organism suffer. I d...
This entire discussion reminds of the hydrostatic equilibrium of a star - expanding and contracting over and over again until running out of fuel or e...
If it's flawed, then what is this third option (other than unconsciousness, whether that be by sleep, or by unintentional/intentional death?) Again, t...
To everyone here: let's face the facts: there's two aspects of human existence: suffering and fun. If you're having a lot of fun, you usually don't ca...
"The richest experience that a tragedy can give is a pseudo-solution of the metaphysical problem of meaning through poetic sublimation" - Peter Zapffe...
Just modern life, or the lives of those who don't have anything better to do? Boredom pales in comparison to physical pain. Boredom is what made art, ...
I think for the most part the internet as it is currently operating as is just another manifestation of humanity's propensity for stupidity. Or, to be...
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