Story The reason we didn't find aliens in space

[Deleted member 847]

The more intelligent you get, the more nihilistic you become

 

[Deleted member 847]

How to know if you're a nihilist.
Step 1, you don't care about being a real "man"/lady, having a reputation, a career, being productive, and doing all the stuff society tells you to do. Because ultimately the importance of anything is subjective, and nothing really matters to you.

 

[Nephis]

How to know if you're a nihilist.
Step 1, you don't care about being a real "man"/lady, having a reputation, a career, being productive, and doing all the stuff society tells you to do. Because ultimately the importance of anything is subjective, and nothing really matters to you.

Huh it seems i'm a nihilist i really don't think anything i do will seriously matter and the damn society that pushes you to do what it want's or labels you a outcast is completely meaningless but the only reason they give to do any of that is "you can leave behind a legacy" it's stupid

 

[RM5998]

The more intelligent you get, the more nihilistic you become

It's not nihilism per se. But yeah, Schopenhauer's take on existentialism did have a nihilistic bend.

Also, if existential nihilism caused Schopenhauer's hair to look like that, count me in.

 

[Ben]

Also, if existential nihilism caused Schopenhauer's hair to look like that, count me in.

Fucking LOL

 

[setianism]

I'm more of an existentialist-pessimist Emil Cioran kind of guy

 

[Slacker]

still... Schopenhauer died when he was 72.
Not by suicide.

Saying that nihilism is the highest form of intelligence is arrogant.

"I want to suicide, so I'm smarter than all the other pro-lifers becaus I realized the senseless of life???"

That rises my ego... sure... but it's just a lie.

Isn't Philosophy more about asking questions than about giving answers?

 

[RM5998]

still... Schopenhauer died when he was 72.
Not by suicide.

Saying that nihilism is the highest form of intelligence is arrogant.

"I want to suicide, so I'm smarter than all the other pro-lifers becaus I realized the senseless of life???"

That rises my ego... sure... but it's just a lie.

Isn't Philosophy more about asking questions than about giving answers?

No, philosophy is about constructing rational worldviews that contextualize the world. Science is an offshoot of philosophy, which is why both have a lot of focus on using rational language(s).

Also, I don't think this is a superiority thing at all. It's more on the lines of us finding a philosophical perspective (and thus a worldview) that doesn't simply cast our desire to die as wrong, stupid and indicative of less strength of character. And that acceptance can mean a lot, especially when the rest of society doesn't give even the slightest bit of that.

 

[Deleted member 847]

Does anyone know what's the opposite philosophy of nihilism?

 

[Deleted member 847]

My point is an advanced alien species would realize that there's no point to go on and struggle just for some dopamine and oxytocin. Unless they find the way to eternal never-ending pleasure.

 

[raskolnikov]

Does anyone know what's the opposite philosophy of nihilism?

I would say Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit. Schopenhauer in fact, was his most fierce opposer.

Maybe also positivism, with its endless faith in human rationality and progress.

 

[RM5998]

I would say Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit. Schopenhauer in fact, was his most fierce opposer.

Maybe also positivism, with its endless faith in human rationality and progress.

That sounds interesting, considering the nature of Hegelian discourse.

 

[raskolnikov]

That sounds interesting, considering the nature of Hegelian discourse.

Hegel is an optimist. He sees in the world the same rationality he sees in our mind, in which he has infinite faith. He thinks that evil doesn't exist per se, but is only a step in the revealing of good. His philosophy is the last step in finalism/theism, before the explosion of nihilism.

He also is an organicist, because the part exists only as function of the whole, which he calls "the Absolute". In the same way, for Hegel human society should mirror this rational organicism he sees in nature.

In fact he delegitimizes the individual, and idolizes the State. For many, Hegel is the founder of the idea of the totalitarian state.

Useless to say, I don't have very much sympathy for Hegel :)

 

[RM5998]

Hegel is an optimist. He sees in the world the same rationality he sees in our mind, in which he has infinite faith. He thinks that evil doesn't exist per se, but is only a step in the revealing of good. His philosophy is the last step in finalism/theism, before the explosion of nihilism.

He also is an organicist, because the part exists only as function of the whole, which he calls "the Absolute". In the same way, for Hegel human society should mirror this rational organicism he sees in nature.

In fact he delegitimizes the individual, and idolizes the State. For many, Hegel is the founder of the idea of the totalitarian state.

Useless to say, I don't have very much sympathy for Hegel :)

I wasn't referring to the perspective of his philosophical works, but rather the idea of thesis, antithesis and synthesis that he came up with. Ironic that the person who came up with that would take up the optimistic stance that his pantheism had.