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The nature of the Will, i.e. the "striving" of it, seems to have a correlation to creation and an abrupt halt in interest in this creation. Perhaps we...

Schopenhauer uses an appeal to modality to argue against Leibniz' claim that this is the best of all possible worlds. He does so by arguing that god c...

What I never understood about Schopenhauer's idealism is that if the Idea is the result of the Will, and the Will is an unrelenting, striving force, t...

I'm assuming you believe that there ever can be a crystal-clear case? Presumably all those who have been executed were thought to be crystal-clear gui...

But the eye-for-an-eye making the whole world blind analogy is arguing for forgiveness.

It's not really about how we can possibly be wrong in these kinds of situation. It's that the law is not written in a case-by-case basis. We don't get...

Well I think this is an equivocation of the word mock. Making fun of someone's family is mocking, throwing eggs on their windows is mocking. Killing s...

Apologies beforehand, but I don't get it. If there's a cup, then there's a cup. If you agree that Trump is the worst candidate for office, then you be...

You don't usually kill someone for mocking your family. We certainly can't allow this behavior to continue. But we shouldn't stoop to their level and ...

Do you suppose people pop out of the womb with identical clean slates, and that somehow some mystical metaphysical soul has the capability of choosing...

Funny you say this. I was motivated to make this thread because I was talking to an acquaintance who happens to be fairly conservative. Then again, th...

Absolutely I disagree. And eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. All your reasoning here shows is our insatiable desire for vengeance and a deep...

Maybe if enough of these lexit left-wingers left Europe, there would be room for all the refugees. /s

I'm not against gay pride events, I just don't particularly like them nor find them to be necessary. They tend to be over-the-top and make the LGBT co...

How's this? :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWO5Ai_a80M

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Got this baby for a bargain. Original price was $150, I got it for $40. Best book on philosophy of mind I'v...

I think dreamlike here means the phenomenological appearance of the analyzed world. We either live in a metaphorical dream in an unanalyzed world, or ...

Thanks for this. I never knew there was literature surrounding this idea.

You and your translations... ;)

Hey, look what I found! Arthur Schopenhauer's Studies in Pessimism. This should prove interesting to the discussion.

Independent philosophical studies are like epistemology, metaphysics, logic, etc. These are used in the various philosophies of x's, but can be studie...

Correct. Philosophical methodology is via argumentation. You cannot argue without having disagreement. This is why there is no philosophy of tupperwar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTN6cGmH2yM

You know who I have deep respect for? Audiobook narrators. Thank the gods for their talent.

Again, my links are only supplemental material. My position does not rise or fall solely on these psychological phenomenons.

This. ugh :s

Pollyanna Principle Hedonic Treadmill Repression Terror Management Theory

BC did when he offered the solution of sex workers.

Considering honeybees have been seen as acting as if they had optimism and pessimism biases, we can at least apply a kind of behaviorist model of mind...

In other words, what Schopenhauer1 is saying is that the good in the world, the aesthetics, the sciences, the friendships, victories, reliefs, and ple...

I'm starting to get a thing for blues/jazz music. Something about it touches the soul.

I am justified in dismissing it when it can be shown that people's own opinions of their lives are biased by rose-tinted glasses, hard-wired optimism ...

An appeal to the majority proves nothing in terms of the truth of an ethical doctrine. We do not have a crystal ball, and this means that we ought not...

Sex is not a necessity to exist. Just look at the ascetics, monks, and nuns who (supposedly) did not participate in the realm of sexual affairs. If yo...

I should have expanded on my original point. Kicking them out because they are, say, Muslim is bigoted. Kicking them out simply because they aren't ac...

The fact that we don't have a crystal ball means that we probably shouldn't be messing around with stuff that affects other people. Regardless of the ...

In the end I believe it comes down to a subjective introspective appropriation of the value of existence. Can a life be made to be valuable? Possibly....

This is the use of counterfactuals to describe a potential, possible world, which is plausibly at least a component of our ability to conduct debates ...

Learned Helplessness

Yeah, no argument there. That's why you have to find something that makes up for the bullshit. Something to live for.

I do agree that Plato's metaphysics has a certain air to it. It is aesthetically pleasing but also almost mystical. Too bad I'm not a strict Platonist...

What is it about life that you find to be absolutely dreadful?

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. -...

It would cause anxiety because anxiety is a defense mechanism that arises out of an overdetermination of possibilities. In reality, perhaps there need...

Right.

See here.

The modus operandi of Aristotelian philosophy makes more sense to me than the Platonist one. The metaphysics of the former also make more sense than t...

They need validation.

Basically Facebook derives a lot, if not most of its income by users clicking on advertisements. These advertisements are catered to the users by an a...

This is why Facebook is facing a major threat with the decline of text updates and the rise of memes. Without text updates, no advertisements can be c...