I’ve found surprisingly few philosophy papers that take #nihilism seriously and point out why each of the arguments for it are mistaken.
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I’m having to trawl through the blogosphere and forums to locate each of the arguments for
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So do you not have those feels about insignificance at the cosmic scale, or just say the feels are not dictated by science/reason?
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Have fair ev psych story about why we might feel that way. For humans, meanings are strongly social. There's way more universe than we need
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Yes; a big part of what is going on is that eternalism creates exaggerated expectations for what meaningfulness could be.
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Nihilists are quite right to reject “ultimate/absolute/cosmic meaning.” These are not just nonexistent, they’re incoherent.
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Could you explain how “the universe will die eventually” implies that your life is meaningless?
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(Sorry I’m not quite understanding your point, but want to)
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Right! Eternalism is wrong and harmful too
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Meanings don’t last forever; that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
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