RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 24, 2023 at 5:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 5:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Camus and Sartre, obviously, would be a good place. I could give you some contemporaries but contemporary philosophers do tend to be extremely narrow in their context. Rather than the broad strokes about a particular metaethical theory, they'll needle in on a single aspect of a single metaethical theory. Shelley Kagan is probably one of my favorite contemporary realists - focuses on moral dessert and how it routinely (and predictably!) modifies our moral conclusions, and as a bonus he's got a good narrative voice and style. I tend to like the ones that see the main issue in their preferred philosophy and just own it. Kagan, for example, deflates nuts by agreeing that, as a realist, he also doesn't think that life or morality offers any "ultimate value" or "ultimate meaning".
@ Boru
Pretty much. We're complicated and compromised. What can I say, I agree with the original nihilist on this one. I think that the best we can do is intellectual nihilism. Just a tick of biology.
@ Boru
Pretty much. We're complicated and compromised. What can I say, I agree with the original nihilist on this one. I think that the best we can do is intellectual nihilism. Just a tick of biology.
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