"places nihilism, death and suffering as the core of being" true "and still finds a path to ultimate goodness and truth" highly debatable
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aesthetics is of primary importance and cannot easily be disentangled from ethical judgments. the position sometimes called "objectivity" is a mild delusion which conflates an attempt to be aesthetically bland with an attempt to control for confounding subjective factors.
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Replying to @pieratt
Of course, but we have to acknowledge it's not a purely rational debate.
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reminds me of my dad, whose xtian theology is highly developed and beautiful to the point where Im jealous. A few of my issues: (a) willful ignorance of beauty/truth outside map (b) defensive pleas to authority when questioned (c) cognitive backflips to maintain fixed aesthetics
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