true that’s what i’m doing rn, i was just asking because i feel like it’s harder to write the essay about something i don’t agree with 😭
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unfortunately true :(
i mean our prompt is to choose someone we agree with but i guess you’re right i could analyze the things i disagree with and agree with for a certain person 🤔
i need to look more into nihilist ethics though, from my understanding is it kind of a misinterpretation to assess it as “there are no ethics or morals nothing matters" and is instead the understanding that these things aren’t objective and universal and are socially constructed? because i agree with the latter and think our environment is the foundation for our ethics and that the way we should act is contextual, it’s just that i agree with some of these socially constructed ethics and believe people should act empathetically, try to reduce suffering, etc.
fuck i might just make an askchapo post
struggling so hard with my philosophy paper where we have to analyze any philosopher’s thoughts on ethics we agree with and abide by because i disagree with everyone we’ve learned about in some way 😭 aristotelian virtue ethics, kantian ethics, existentialism, and utilitarianism just have way too many idealist and individualist flaws for me to get behind
are there any prominent philosophers whose thoughts on ethics are compatible with materialism, determinism, etc., and advocate for things like empathy, liberation, etc.?
i meant war not water 😭
college philosophy text book just did the hegel dialectics = thesis + antithesis -> synthesis meme unironically
just saw someone on tiktok say people shouldn’t celebrate kissinger’s death because he was the incarnation of the god of war and now he’ll be looking for a new avatar
i’m finishing up my final essay for this persuasive writing class i’m taking and i figured i should read some of the examples from previous students the professor included, and oh my fucking god. this guy wrote about online echo chambers right, and had a whole paragraph whining about the usage of the term “AmeriKKKa” in r/sino, talking about how this “stigmatizing language” reduced America to a racist caricature and that the repeated use of it “legitimizes this view” and makes it true for that community. like what the actual fuck i’m appalled, truly embarassing shit
yeah as i’m writing it i’m basically doing what you’re describing in the first paragraph, i actually just come across something like what you’re desciribing in the second paragraph in negative utilitarianism and honestly that sounds pretty agreeable