Posturing and appeals are quintessential of every academic. — Aryamoy Mitra
Insofar as their 'non-real work' is concerned, it's only a shame that they haven't met your exalted standards. — Aryamoy Mitra
The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world
everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen: in it no
value exists--and if it did exist, it would have no value. — TLP
Nietszche does not deny science. What he denies is the:
metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests
— Fooloso4
Which amounts to the same! He explicitly denies the idea of 'natural order' or 'natural law' as an anthropomorphism.
The total character of the world...is in all eternity chaos—in the sense not of a lack of necessity but of a lack of order, arrangement, form, beauty, wisdom, and whatever other names there are for ". — Wayfarer
Exalted, no. That I have standards, yes. If you call asking for something beyond truisms "exalted," that's your issue. I asked for what exactly the "work" is. You, like all those taken in by Peterson's superficiality, can't point to any. I suppose "cleaning your room" is one piece of that profound work? — Xtrix
Have you read Maps of Meaning? Have you chanced across his lectures of Existentialist Psychology? Are you acquainted with his contentions to New Atheism? — Aryamoy Mitra
Shouldn't have foreseen anything less myopic. — Aryamoy Mitra
Please be careful, while scaling down that mountain of sanctimony. It's fairly high. — Aryamoy Mitra
From "The Intellectual We Deserve" — Xtrix
He does not deny science. What he denies is the:
metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests — Fooloso4
The problem is not with the meaning of the term. I suspect you know that. — Fooloso4
Yes, and this means he denies that the aim of science should be the attainment of truth, which amounts to a direct critique of modern physics and most sciences outside of perhaps a few branches of psychology. — Joshs
Peterson and Zizek are both egomaniacs.
Give me 5 minutes of someone like Noam Chomsky over either of their oeuvres. — Xtrix
Some contemporary physicists do as well, although others treat the laws of nature as eternally unchanging and immutable. — Fooloso4
For those who seek meaning in the universe it means, but is not limited to, questions of purpose, significance, and our place in it. — Fooloso4
"Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost nothing of value to say. This should be obvious to anyone who has spent even a few moments critically examining his writings and speeches, which are comically befuddled, pompous, and ignorant. They are half nonsense, half banality. In a reasonable world, Peterson would be seen as the kind of tedious crackpot that one hopes not to get seated next to on a train. — Xtrix
I really don't see Chomsky as an egomaniac in anything, politics or otherwise. Especially not to "rival" Peterson and Zizek. Give me a break. — Xtrix
I can’t imagine any phycisst who would subscribe to Nietzsche’s claim below: — Joshs
Yes, the notio that the universe is a place Nietwe exist ‘within’ is a realist notion, which I think Nietzsche is implicitly critiquing in the quote I sent you. — Joshs
There are some noted physicists including John Wheeler who defend the notion of a participatory universe. — Fooloso4
The desire to find meaning in the universe is not a linguistic quest. Nietzsche denies that such meaning can be found in the universe. Hence my statement: "The universe has always been meaningless." Whatever meaning we find is a meaning we create.
3h — Fooloso4
Would you say that for Wheeler
the universe is participatory in a materially causal way or in a valuative way?I realize that ‘value’ would have to be fleshed out in relation to notions like intentionality and goal-oriented normativity. — Joshs
So you’re saying apprehension of a universe is not a matter of adequation or correspondence with an independent reality but of construction? — Joshs
t would be a mistake to think he was anti-science — Fooloso4
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