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I suppose this means you aren't very interested in, say, analytic philosophy? Analyticism does not use phenomenology very much, it's more intuitions a...

Well, TIL

If we're to take the Straussian interpretation seriously, it it that ancient Greek philosophy emerged from politics - those skilled and involved in po...

How so?

One need not expect utopianism to realize that some things are entirely vestigial and ought to be removed from society.

Ethics is more general than morality. Morality is dependent upon an ethical structure. So any moral judgement (i.e. that we should live) depends on an...

Why not go all the way? Why is it permissible to not do your very best? Why is not-being-a-moral-saint permissible?

The construction would go a lot quicker if those darn conservatives would stop trying to enforce gender roles that no longer apply.

By being more harsh (i.e. calling bullshit), and not promoting global tolerance and P.C, they would inevitably constrain the possibilities of identity...

What the ontological status of gender is depends on who you ask. For some of the far-right, gender is practically synonymous to sex. You have a penis?...

Foals is much appreciated, thank you.

I tried Facebook, hated it. Too much drama.

Is there any way to contact those who never tried migrating over to this PF? It doesn't look like old PF is going to be up and running any time soon, ...

Sure, but why is abstract thinking on the level that we have necessary for a human being's survival?

The capacity to hold knowledge is a complex biological system.

Holy shit, 10k for a shitty haircut? Jesus...

Usually a complex system in biology does not survive or even evolve unless there is a way this benefits the organism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Ar82N18EY

If anyone is looking for another place to causally discuss philosophy (this and old PF are a bit more serious), come check out: https://discordapp.com...

What's going on with the old PF?

How is this not question-begging?

And modern human beings who do not require children to help take care of them have no excuse for having children.

His hair had a "Will" of its own...a-hah!.... >:O

I agree. Schopenhauer really shouldn't be associated with nihilism. Although he certainly was an atheist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wQR-jgw7PI

I see little to no difference between the two, except for perhaps the guilt of the persons involved. What does it matter if a person procreated withou...

I agree somewhat that Schopenhauer was more accurate than anyone else. Part of me believes that he just had the guts to say what everyone else was sec...

I do like this quote. (Y) It does this by being unpredictable and untraceable to any collective governing agency. The easiest way of gaining notoriety...

Someone can be a Hegelian without believing everything Hegel said. Someone can be a Buddhist without believing in karma. etc. These terms are more fam...

Antinatalism does not have to be a moral condemnation of birth, just like being an anti-expansionist doesn't have to mean believing expansionist polic...

Determinism doesn't stop you from trying.

If it's the motive that counted, he wouldn't have called lovers monsters that continued the suffering, since parents don't usually wish to inflict har...

The act of sex is not the only action or factor involved in the decision to procreate. Choosing to procreate entails a fetus exiting the mother's womb...

At least for myself, genuine asceticism just seems to be navel-gazing self-denial. It's nice to think that you and everyone else can achieve some kind...

Schopenhauer would not have viewed birth as something to be celebrated (even though he had a bastard child himself...good job Schop). I cannot find th...

Question: if you put Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on an island together, who would survive? Answer: America.

(Y) (Y) (Y)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhB6Lb7_kN8

There's definitely some semantic issues regarding what happiness is. For most people, especially in the West, happiness seems to be in line with havin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQD7cci5Vdo God, I love Foals.

The meaninglessness of existence doesn't really bother me. It's the content of experience + the meaninglessness of existence that makes it troublesome...

You might try this question over at the older PF.

We can understand that concentrated and sophisticated patterns emerge with a telos-like structure. We don't do things randomly, we do things because t...

I agree that aesthetic properties are subjective, even though for some funky reason most professional philosophers believe in objective aesthetic prop...

Hey that was supposed to be my line! ;)

I meant society as a whole, not as my personal social bubble. To a certain extent, I can leave the broader society and I do. But it's pervasive and I'...

I think both you and I have a fairly similar understanding as to why it's a charade. It's pointless, scary, harmful, absurd, hilarious, enjoyable in s...

Are you high right now? Jokes aside, the implicit messages that society is trying to convey about life is that it's simultaneously a good thing and a ...

Mr. Robot is my favorite television show, partly because they picked the perfect music for each episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfNB3fakB8 S...

I agree that we'll probably die out before then. However if it is the case that we happen to exist for that long, then the eventual entropic heat deat...