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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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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Well I think eternalism trained ppl to think meaning had to be a mind-independent property of things, or else be ersatz.
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And since science failed to find semantrons, the argument is made.
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The same thing with ethics. Any sane meta-ethics tends to leave one feeling undermined. I think bc we expect stone tablets.
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Yes. Although, I’d say we currently have no sane meta-ethics. And this is evidence for that.
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It's been a while since I thought about this but it seems like meta-ethics is not one topic but several, all with different answers.
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that sounds plausible to me!
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