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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      The advice is fine. Yes, in a literal sense, the interconnected network of meaning can enrich your life and help you through trying times. Attempting to adjust to the loss of greater meanings or fictions lost is difficult, and this helps. It is *not* contrary to existentialism.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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      So the thing you hated was that it mischaracterizes existentialism, in your view?

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    3. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      mischaracterizes it, and the idea that they're even contrary is silly upon further reflection how much different is "find meaning in individual things" from "choose meaning"? Really, it's a classic mistake to assume that existentialism/nihilism have "life has no meaning" as...

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    4. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      a conclusion. Sure, some people believe that and go to despair. But there are so many beliefs and philosophies that extend from that premise, and you saying that your idea is somehow against it disregards all of them

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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      Which are some you have in mind here?

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    6. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      Read "existentialism is a humanism"? "The ethics of ambiguity"? You can't form legitimate arguments against philosophies, nay, ideas, that you do not understand or have done research on.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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      Yes, I have read both of those. (I recommend de Beauvoir’s piece in one if my discussions of ethics somewhere.)

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    8. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      So if you know that Beauvoir's ethics have a basis in existentialism, why would you think that existentialism -> despair?

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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      It’s one common outcome but not universal. (Even for full-fledged nihilism.) My objection is that independent individual choice is impossible. (This is more a Kierkegaard & early Heidegger thing than a Sartre one probably.)

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    10. Viev, Professional Doomsayer‏ @Commie_sama 12 May 2019
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      does choice being dependent on outside things or outside people matter? It's still... choice.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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      It mattered a lot to the existentialists. The necessity and possibility of perfectly free choice (which is “authentic”) vs culturally conditioned “bad faith” is the main point of _Being and Nothingness_ for instance.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 May 2019
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          Since I think “authenticity” in this technical sense is impossible and undesirable, I think it doesn’t matter... which is why I am not an existentialist.

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