I don't know why I have nipples, nor do I know why I have fingers or toes. — Metaphysician Undercover
Looking at the way I use some parts of my body doesn't necessarily tell me why I have those parts. — Metaphysician Undercover
No that is true. You do not have fingers and toes for the reason you use them. :rofl:As I said, that I use fingers and toes for certain purposes doesn't mean that this is the reason why I have them. — Metaphysician Undercover
Adorno's moral philosophy is similarly concerned with the effects of 'enlightenment' upon both the prospects of individuals leading a 'morally good life' and philosophers' ability to identify what such a life may consist of. Adorno argues that the instrumentalization of reason has fundamentally undermined both. He argues that social life in modern societies no longer coheres around a set of widely espoused moral truths and that modern societies lack a moral basis. What has replaced morality as the integrating 'cement' of social life are instrumental reasoning and the exposure of everyone to the capitalist market. According to Adorno, modern, capitalist societies are fundamentally nihilistic, in character; opportunities for leading a morally good life and even philosophically identifying and defending the requisite conditions of a morally good life have been abandoned to instrumental reasoning and capitalism. Within a nihilistic world, moral beliefs and moral reasoning are held to have no ultimately rational authority: moral claims are conceived of as, at best, inherently subjective statements, expressing not an objective property of the world, but the individual's own prejudices. Morality is presented as thereby lacking any objective, public basis.* The espousal of specific moral beliefs is thus understood as an instrument for the assertion of one's own, partial interests: morality has been subsumed by instrumental reasoning. Adorno attempts to critically analyse this condition. He is not a nihilist, but a critic of nihilism.
Nietzsche, the expert on nihilism — Enrique
give my fingers, toes and nipples a goal — Enrique
I am of the opinion, if people didn't have something to struggle for we would lose the will to live. We have to have aspirations. I think one of the greatest challenges facing mankind would be boredom and loneliness and general nihilism.
He has got man breasts.
...moral claims are conceived of as, at best, inherently subjective statements, expressing not an objective property of the world, but the individual's own prejudices. Morality is presented as thereby lacking any objective, public basis.
As Enlightenment Kant said, to the extent that our moral judgements are rational, this is "practical reason", a veneer of universal pragmatisms, not even close to satisfying human nature's vast assortment of personal preferences. That's why Kant describes the fundamentals of civic morality as a matter of duty, not pleasure. — Enrique
I’m wondering where the notion of veneer of universal pragmatisms comes from. — Mww
fundamentals of civic morality as a matter of duty, not pleasure. — Enrique
According to Kant, the "conditions of the possibility of experience" in the context of human values — Enrique
You did say “for example” but 60% is WAY too high. Only 25% of individuals make more than the mean individual income of about $50k/yr, while about 50% make less than half of that, under $25k/yr. Just keeping a roof over your head is a constant struggle for most people, and the vast majority have no financial safety net at all. I’m just barely in that top 25% myself and I live in the shittiest trailer park in town, still renting the land it’s parked on. — Pfhorrest
Anyway, like I said I get that it was just an example, I just wanted to be clear that 60% of people living a struggle-free life is very very far from true. Most people live in the places where lots of people live, which are consequentially expensive places, where the kind of incomes that most people make will barely let you scrape by with zero safety net, which is not at all "struggle-free". — Pfhorrest
I lived on $25k/yr in California for a decade and couldn't even afford an apartment to myself. — Pfhorrest
where the kind of incomes that most people make will barely let you scrape by with zero safety net, which is not at all "struggle-free". — Pfhorrest
I just want to highlight that some people can choose to be happy in the midst of an awful situation...what allows them to do this? Can it be replicated by the rest of us, or is it just a personality trait? — ZhouBoTong
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