“Rationally, looking at your life in cosmic perspective, you realize everything is meaningless.” Excellent rebutal: http://sci-hub.cc/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00048402.2010.527354# …
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I’ve found surprisingly few philosophy papers that take
#nihilism seriously and point out why each of the arguments for it are mistaken.2 replies 2 retweets 8 likes -
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I’m having to trawl through the blogosphere and forums to locate each of the arguments for
#nihilism; I intend to catalog and rebut all.5 replies 1 retweet 17 likes -
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AFAICT, no one has ever done this before. Arguments against nihilism almost always simply advocate eternalism (“God, therefore meaning!”).
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Serious engagement with specific nihilist arguments is very rare. Maybe just because they are all dumb? But they persuade many people.
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There’s this vague idea that “science/rationality proves everything is meaningless.” Like, where? Who made this epic discovery?
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I think you get at it when you say eternalism gives too high expectations for meaning. Pre-scientific cosmologies are "comfy",
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Science is "cold", and gives way to much space to rattle around in. The universe doesn't "care".
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IMO evo psych is even worse if you "get it", though it seems few have the capacity for that level of self doubt.
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I think that’s true, although on the whole I had the opposite experience: people made more sense to me, so more meaningful.
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