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Why nihilism is the anti-philosophy and why philosophy is just as important as the scientific method.
Science is identifying and measuring the properties of things and what those things are doing. It’s not intentionally materialistic, but a materialist philosophy can grow within that context only if it ignores certain aspects of our direct experience of the world in relation to ourselves and what we are doing.
Philosophy is asking what is it that we know and why do we know it. Why is there something rather than nothing is a philosophy question
Knowledge begins with the premise that we have found ourselves in a situation, and we are asking why that is true and what that is…
But philosophy, unlike science, isn’t just about beings or objects, Philosophy is also a recognition of the fact that we experience a range of emotional experiences that convey more than just content but also meaning about that content. It genuinely appears that our experience of reality and each-other has genuine meaning. We wouldn’t talk about how we felt otherwise since we cannot possibly think there is meaning or ever have an idea of it if it was never there or never true. To approach this question is to acknowledge that we experience more than the quantifiable.
The consequences of nihilism, which can be considered an extreme form of Atheism, is that we have never experienced meaning because only physical objects exist. It essentially argues that meaning is an illusion. But it admits that we cannot possibly experience more than the quantifiable. Thus we cannot even imagine something meaningful since the content our experiences lacks exactly that, and our imagination is simply building only on what we know. We cannot have an illusion of meaning without experiencing meaning in much the same way we cannot create an illusion of motion with out there really being motion.
It is because nihilism is essentially rejecting this aspect of our experience that i call it the anti-philosophy, and it is our experience of the unquantifiable that makes philosophy just as important as science.
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Science is identifying and measuring the properties of things and what those things are doing. It’s not intentionally materialistic, but a materialist philosophy can grow within that context only if it ignores certain aspects of our direct experience of the world in relation to ourselves and what we are doing.
Philosophy is asking what is it that we know and why do we know it. Why is there something rather than nothing is a philosophy question
Knowledge begins with the premise that we have found ourselves in a situation, and we are asking why that is true and what that is…
But philosophy, unlike science, isn’t just about beings or objects, Philosophy is also a recognition of the fact that we experience a range of emotional experiences that convey more than just content but also meaning about that content. It genuinely appears that our experience of reality and each-other has genuine meaning. We wouldn’t talk about how we felt otherwise since we cannot possibly think there is meaning or ever have an idea of it if it was never there or never true. To approach this question is to acknowledge that we experience more than the quantifiable.
The consequences of nihilism, which can be considered an extreme form of Atheism, is that we have never experienced meaning because only physical objects exist. It essentially argues that meaning is an illusion. But it admits that we cannot possibly experience more than the quantifiable. Thus we cannot even imagine something meaningful since the content our experiences lacks exactly that, and our imagination is simply building only on what we know. We cannot have an illusion of meaning without experiencing meaning in much the same way we cannot create an illusion of motion with out there really being motion.
It is because nihilism is essentially rejecting this aspect of our experience that i call it the anti-philosophy, and it is our experience of the unquantifiable that makes philosophy just as important as science.
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