“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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Nearly everyone accepts “Science says: everything meaningless!” and has some reaction to that, instead of asking “what science was that?”
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I presume you have engaged with "Nihil Unbound"? https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/ray-brassier-nihil-unbound-enlightenment-and-extinction.pdf …
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Sigh. Yes… but I need to go through it again more carefully. Thanks for the pointer, though!
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I second that sigh! Interesting that nihilism is sometimes framed as a kind of release.
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Nihilists feel the need to write as obscurely as possible, and at great length, to hide the obvious fallacies in their reasoning.
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