“Nihilism is OK” is not OK
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“Nihilism is OK” is not OK
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#2I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
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#3I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
I know right, lots of opinionated statements and very little to back it up. Here is just one paragraph in the intro:
> Nihilism makes you miserable and ineffective.
Why?
> That is not OK.
Why?
> It also erodes our cultures’ and societies’ ability to improve lives and tackle urgent problems.
Why?
> That is also not OK.
Why?
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None of this is answered in the rest of the blog post.
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#4Its not really clear what the author is arguing.
I am not sure why if someone simply believes that they cannot prove, with the fundamental aspects of reality, that there is provable "meaning", that this automatically means that such a person will slide into some sort of existential "Catatonia".
Whats wrong with just accepting that we could have unprovable axioms, that we simply take for granted?
For example, I think that killing is wrong. But that is an unjustified axiom. If someone comes up to me and says "Well, technically, you don't believe that you can prove that killing is wrong", my response is simply "I don't care".
People can simply be OK with having values that they care about, and accept that they will never be able to fully "prove" them in the way that hardcore philosophers might want them to be provable.
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#5"In popular use, the term commonly refers to forms of existential nihilism, according to which life is without intrinsic value, meaning, or purpose."
So the whole post argues against something that most probably isn't even meant.
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#6I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
I know right, lots of opinionated statements and very little to back it up. Here is just one paragraph in the intro: > Nihilism makes you miserable and ineffective. Why? > That is not OK. Why? > It also erodes our cultures’ and societies’ ability to improve lives and tackle urgent problems. Why? > That is also not OK. Why? ---- None of this is answered in the rest of the blog post.
It reads almost like cult literature, though without any strong call to action.
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#7> But there is a better alternative. In some cases, self-described nihilists point toward "the complete stance", as this book does also. That is neither nihilist, nor eternalist or existentialist
"the complete stance"?
just, wow
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#8I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
I know right, lots of opinionated statements and very little to back it up. Here is just one paragraph in the intro: > Nihilism makes you miserable and ineffective. Why? > That is not OK. Why? > It also erodes our cultures’ and societies’ ability to improve lives and tackle urgent problems. Why? > That is also not OK. Why? ---- None of this is answered in the rest of the blog post.
Probably says more about the author than about nihilism.
From Google, nihilism is:
> the rejection of all religious and moral principles
I wonder if the author is religious and if nihilism is so contrary to the author’s core beliefs that it doesn’t even occur to them that these statements need further explanation and justification in order to be complete as a rational argument.
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#9I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
I know right, lots of opinionated statements and very little to back it up. Here is just one paragraph in the intro: > Nihilism makes you miserable and ineffective. Why? > That is not OK. Why? > It also erodes our cultures’ and societies’ ability to improve lives and tackle urgent problems. Why? > That is also not OK. Why? ---- None of this is answered in the rest of the blog post.
It's not a blog post. It's part of an (incomplete) book. See navigation at the end.
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#10I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
Perhaps it's building on arguments made in the earlier 30+ parts of the series.