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Better Never to Have Been
A South African philosopher by the name of David Benatar believes that the world would be a better place if sentient life disappeared altogether, i.e., no remaining life-form capable of undergoing pain or suffering. As a consequence he claims it … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-natalist, David Benatar, indifferent universe, life, meaning of life, pain and suffering
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The World as Form and Function
Reality is created by observers in the universe – John Archibald Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (1911-2008) Today I am revisiting the views held by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Idea (1818), and his rejection of naïve realism, or what has been … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmos, evolution, form, function, Kant, life, matter, Schopenhauer, thing-in-itself, universe, world
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A Solution in Search of a Problem
Much of what I am trying to do here is to get to the story behind the story, i.e., to get a glimpse of the greater context of what plays itself out every day as what we refer to as … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, infinte universe, life, living, meaning of life, the story behind the story
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Life
The basic inorganic building blocks from which life was formed are chemicals such as methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide, and likely a few more. To date no credible scientific theory has been advanced that can account for … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary particles, evolution, life, life-forms, the building blocks of life, the cosmos is a living organism
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Existentialism Revisited
In Macbeth William Shakespeare reveals himself to be somewhat of an early Existentialist, when Lady Macbeth kills herself, and Macbeth reacts as follows: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Albert Camus, Existence, existentialism, fate, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, life, meaning, Paul Tillich, purpose of life, Walter Kaufmann
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