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Aryamoy Mitra

['Member']Joined: October 21, 2020 at 16:53Last active: August 21, 2025 at 20:2110 discussions146 comments
Location: Mumbai, India

Bio

I’m here to write a meaningful story.

Favourite Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche | Jean-Paul Sartre | Søren Kierkegaard | Immanuel Kant

Favourite Quotations

'A man's maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play' - Friedrich Nietzsche

'The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies, and his rule commences' - Søren Kierkegaard

Discussions (10)

Misanthropy

December 04, 2020 at 14:17 36 comments General Philosophy

Aspirations

October 27, 2020 at 13:39 0 comments Philosophy of Mind

Comments

In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
I don't know if that was actually devised by Nietzsche, but it definitely appears characteristic of him. As you'll know, most of Beyond Good and Evil'...
April 15, 2021 at 02:06
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
I'm a critic of his, if anything.
April 15, 2021 at 01:44
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
We shouldn't seek to devolve into an infinite regress of quotations.
April 15, 2021 at 00:42
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
I'm not a follower of his, only someone who is familiar with his doctrines.
April 15, 2021 at 00:30
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
They shouldn't be contextualized together, because they use entirely contrasting areas of knowledge to construct their arguments.
April 14, 2021 at 23:55
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
One of the markers of self-indulgence in this regard, perhaps, is losing a sight of one's ends while being immersed in their means. For instance, if o...
April 14, 2021 at 22:58
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
This is indicative of Hitchens' razor.
April 14, 2021 at 22:33
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
Exactly. He has one edifice of interpretations, that is rigid, well-structured and thoroughly developed over two or three decades. Naturally, one cave...
April 14, 2021 at 20:49
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
That is, in all likelihood, dependent on how it's undertaken. Most individuals are oriented differently; some live their lives without rationalizing, ...
April 14, 2021 at 20:04
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
That's an intriguing hypothesis. Most of these additive functions (meta-functions of survival, in a way) perhaps evolved after the human race mastered...
April 14, 2021 at 12:48
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
It doesn't make sense to invite secondary sources for the determination of one's stances on primary sources.
April 13, 2021 at 20:57
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
Have you read Maps of Meaning? Have you seen his lectures of Existentialist Psychology? Are you acquainted with his contentions to New Atheism?
April 13, 2021 at 17:03
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
Most philosophical assertions are fallible in one form or another, and they are no exception; they've been contended on many accounts. Posturing is qu...
April 13, 2021 at 07:10
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
Well, let's see if we can quote you in replying.
April 13, 2021 at 03:26
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
I think you're declaiming a metaphysical proof of a transcendental entity that has historically eluded natural philosophers, scientists and thinkers, ...
April 13, 2021 at 03:19
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
Please be careful, while scaling down that mountain of sanctimony. It's fairly high. JP, albeit first a professor, has spent the entirety of his caree...
April 12, 2021 at 23:59
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
Exactly. JP's a brilliant thinker, but he can be reductive in his interpretations. It doesn't help that he's evasive in pinpointing what God even enta...
April 12, 2021 at 22:34
In: Was Nietzsche right about this?  — view comment
If one were to momentarily discount Anti-theistic arguments altogether, there is a meaning attached to metaphorical parables, scriptures, and myths, a...
April 12, 2021 at 22:18
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
I might not be replying to this thread anymore.
April 12, 2021 at 04:02
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
Not quite. I was asking why you thought the world was equivalent to a prison, as an a priori truth (independent of any theistic or non-theistic constr...
April 12, 2021 at 03:25
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
Of course.
April 12, 2021 at 00:45
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
They aren't argument that are commensurate with your assertions. You're eliciting tangential ideas, and implicitly restating statements of contention....
April 12, 2021 at 00:33
In: God and antinatalism  — view comment
If you abnegate Empirical constructs, and leap to a omniscient entity without an underlying genesis, you will reaffirm your faith in any God.
April 11, 2021 at 22:12
In: A Model of Consciousness  — view comment
EMF refers to an electromotive force; are you denoting the emergence of one, or merely abbreviating an Electromagnetic Field? How are you substantiati...
April 09, 2021 at 22:51
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Wait, don't we all have one? Electing to underpin your being with a rationale(s) is voluntary, isn't it?
April 08, 2021 at 22:37
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Deciphering wasn't perhaps a wise choice, then. There doesn't have to a priori exist a 'larger meaning'; one can conjure it on their own.
April 08, 2021 at 14:58
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Let's hope it does. We've traversed great distances, but it's almost as though our lives are analogous to scaling a metaphorical hill that's increasin...
April 07, 2021 at 23:00
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
That's an agreeable statement. Don't you think, however, that deciphering a larger meaning can aid the living of one's life?
April 07, 2021 at 22:57
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
I'm not denigrating them, but do you really believe that your ideas are constitutive of a scientific revolution? They're novel, certainly. I don't kno...
April 07, 2021 at 22:54
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
Thank you, very much, for corroborating. I've been promulgating this for ages, albeit with an increasing self-doubt. At the very least, I now know I'm...
April 07, 2021 at 22:47
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Thanks for these criticisms; I can't really rebut them. As I've iterated to Tom Storm, there are a plethora of misgivings against premeditating one's ...
April 07, 2021 at 00:09
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Several ideas reside without a particular value (or an ambivalent one), but when introspecting - isn't one bound to ascribe qualitative attributes to ...
April 07, 2021 at 00:00
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Thanks, for your cogently written answer. Insofar as 'rationalizing one's existence' is concerned, here's the definition I conveyed to TheMadFool. Do ...
April 06, 2021 at 23:43
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
If one is consolidating every hypothesis with an equal sincerity, in order to explicate a specific truth, then they will - after an inevitable length ...
April 06, 2021 at 17:11
In: Rationalizing One's Existence  — view comment
Admittedly, the term bears the negative connotation you've discussed - and it wasn't at the forefront of my mind, whilst creating this thread. Nonethe...
April 06, 2021 at 16:55
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
That's true. If you're habituated to necessary encroachments, you're far likelier to remain passive or be incapacitated, when unnecessary ones are int...
April 05, 2021 at 20:59
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
That's a tough counter-argument. I can lay forth an example, of where one might differentiate between the three: By Democracy, I'm referring to a stat...
April 05, 2021 at 20:38
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
Another footnote, if you'd be interested: Since totalitarianism unearths itself in a multiplicity of ways, one might consider categorizing its manifes...
April 05, 2021 at 20:20
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
Paradigm-shattering.
April 05, 2021 at 20:08
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
Pandemic constraints have contributed, but the world has been degenerating into a freedom-less state for a few years, now. Freedoms in movement are on...
April 05, 2021 at 20:06
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
England's still - relatively speaking - an abode to free thought, movement and expression. As far as the entirety of the world is concerned, we're in ...
April 05, 2021 at 19:54
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
That's impertinent to the analogy; and the latter assertion may not be verified (I'm not accredited to comment on it). If Gisin's experiment is at all...
April 03, 2021 at 13:21
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
Ds/Dt can parameterize unchanged spatial distances, on a Minkowski metric - not on a varying one. I'm not contending that fixing C was one of SR's pos...
April 03, 2021 at 13:07
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
What you're asserting then, is that the near entirety of Inflationary Cosmology, as physicists apprehend it today, is a facade. Relativity, despite wh...
April 03, 2021 at 12:16
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
Okay. I can elucidate, but there's a far more effective analogy. I'm quoting, verbatim, this article from the Scientific American. Apprise me if you c...
April 03, 2021 at 12:01
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
Can you quote me, on what I've stated that is unclear?
April 03, 2021 at 11:56
In: Do Physics Equations Disprove the Speed of Light as a Constant?  — view comment
Observing how bodies traverse 'relative' to the fabric on which they're immersed, is the only cosmological dynamic of significance; they're invoked in...
April 03, 2021 at 11:52
In: A Meaningless Hypothetical  — view comment
I didn't think your comments had any pertinence to the theme underlying this thread.
April 01, 2021 at 20:03
In: The subjectivity of morality  — view comment
I'm clarifying a (possible) misapprehension of one of your statements, and apprise me if you disagree. What I believe you mean to say (again, correct ...
April 01, 2021 at 18:47
In: A Meaningless Hypothetical  — view comment
That's interesting.
April 01, 2021 at 18:32
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