(2019-03-09, 07:34 PM)Kamarling Wrote: I can sort of understand, though not agree with, the nihilist view of life but I am aghast that anyone should feel content with that worldview. So I'm not proposing that we should choose a worldview based upon what might make us feel happy and content rather than what is rational but I am a long way from being convinced that nihilism can be demonstrated to be rational. Why someone would willingly prefer to believe that his or her life, including all decisions, acts and achievements, is meaningless is completely beyond me. For myself, given the slightest doubt that nihilism might be true, I'd devote my life to finding truth in the alternative.
Oh, I think Physicalism is just impossible since it has to mean - as per the physicalist Alex Rosenberg - we don't have thoughts.
But yes, I think the skeptical evangelist project is one of the oddest faith-based endeavors in history - that somehow telling people they are on a choiceless course toward oblivion in a world where there are no objective values is going to make the world a better place...
...doesn't add up in my book.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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