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Everything Everywhere All At Once doesn't just exhibit what Nihilism looks like in the internet age; it sees Nihilism as an intellectual mask hiding a more personal psychological crisis of roots and it suggests a revolutionary solution — spending time with family

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_126o2ry on March 30, 2023 at 2:01 PM in philosophy

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The often misused buzzword Paradigm originated in extremely popular and controversial philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn's work; he defined the term in two core ways: firstly as a disciplinary matrix (similar to the concept of a worldview) and secondly as an exemplar

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_10w32zk on February 7, 2023 at 2:24 PM in philosophy

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In the work that inspired The Matrix movies, Baudrillard says we are already living inside a hyperreal simulation entirely walled off from reality. This simulation isn’t simply virtual as it is in The Matrix but penetrates every corner of our postmodern civilisation

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_103znbh on January 5, 2023 at 2:01 PM in philosophy

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Happiness is an essentially nihilistic ideal — it is the best goal to follow when there is nothing else on the table. A meaningful life on the other hand can embrace more of life including struggles and suffering because it is oriented towards a higher ideal

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_10pzgbi on January 31, 2023 at 1:46 PM in philosophy

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Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_109zihx on January 12, 2023 at 1:21 PM in philosophy

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Søren Kierkegaard argued that the Modern age isn't just mass-producing products — it is mass-producing people. Kierkegaard's philosophical response was Christian Existentialism — a personal, truly individual engagement with oneself, life and God

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_zzuz2u on December 31, 2022 at 2:13 PM in philosophy

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Existential Nihilism (the belief that there's no meaning or purpose outside of humanity's self-delusions) emerged out of the decay of religious narratives in the face of science. Existentialism and Absurdism are two proposed solutions — self-created value and rebellion

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_zmlob9 on December 15, 2022 at 1:57 PM in philosophy

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Stoicism's archnemesis Epicurus wasn't your typical hedonist. His recipe for the good life emphasised minimising pain rather than maximising pleasure. Living frugally and free from pain we could live cheerfully and in community with the greatest blessing of all—friends

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_zht3dx on December 10, 2022 at 1:52 PM in philosophy

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Do no conform: Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance argues that we should strive for greatness and self-reliance rather than the "meanness" of conforming to the society's dead institutions saying that "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_zqrg86 on December 20, 2022 at 3:34 PM in philosophy

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Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious is often misunderstood to be a collective hive consciousness, but it was really a hypothesis about a mental counterpart to DNA by which instinctual structures of the mind are inherited

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_yvw2z5 on November 15, 2022 at 12:41 PM in philosophy

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de Chardin argued that Complexity is the "third infinity" — as fundamental as the infinitely large of astronomy and infinitely small of the quantum — and that humanity (with its development of the new mental realm "the noosphere") is the leading edge of evolution

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_yj7zg4 on November 1, 2022 at 12:55 PM in philosophy

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Nietzsche's American Idol: in Nietzsche's Overman to his Death of God we can see the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson who "exercised a continuous influence stronger than that of any other writer on Nietzsche" and was “one of the prototypes of Zarathustra”

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_z7uo0z on November 29, 2022 at 1:51 PM in philosophy

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A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd"

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_yt6m03 on November 12, 2022 at 1:08 PM in philosophy

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Thomas Sowell argues political disagreements are not conflicts of interests but "conflicts of visions". The "Unconstrained" Utopians believe human nature is perfectible while the "Constrained" believe that humans are inherently (though not necessarily essentially) selfish and greedy

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_y4s2la on October 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM in philosophy

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The philosophy of Martin Heidegger who argued that the Technological mindset has destroyed our relationship to the world so that Nature is seen as so many resources to exploit. He presents an alternative: a poetic relationship to the world

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_yd3q1b on October 25, 2022 at 12:33 PM in philosophy

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Empiricism — the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume that argued knowledge was derived only from sensory experience (against Descartes’s Rationalists) and provided the philosophical foundation for the scientific method

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Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_xvcjkn on October 4, 2022 at 11:25 AM in philosophy

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