tsig
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| Quote (NoName @ Feb. 09 2015,16:52) | | Quote (socle @ Feb. 09 2015,12:37) | | Quote (Kantian Naturalist @ Feb. 09 2015,07:41) | | There is, I think, a genuinely hard question here for humanists and naturalists about how to respond to Nietzsche's provocation. I think Arrington is deeply mistaken to think that we're being inconsistent by not being nihilists, but I also think that Nietzsche's challenge can't be brushed aside lightly. |
This isn't really a "response" to Nietzsche, but I wonder if a normal, healthy person could be capable of embracing nihilism fully.
I can't find exactly the words that I need here, but I believe the reason that I'm not a nihilist has more to do with the way my brain is constructed and functions than with rational arguments. We are all hard-wired to find meaning and enjoyment in life, except perhaps when in a depressed or pathological state. For all I know, the meaning I find in life could be completely illusory, but it's self-evident to me that I experience it. |
I'm a hard-core phenomenologist of the Husserlian Realist persuasion, so tend to think the distinction you draw is, at least after careful analysis, closer to a distinction without a difference than it at first appears. But I freely admit, on equally solid phenomenological grounds, that YMMV. ;-) |
Since you cannot have a group if everyone kills each other on sight, "don't kill each other" becomes the first rule, after that the rest follows.
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