NGEFan t1_jb29hw1 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 9:52 PM

Reply to comment by the-cschnepf in Philosophy is everywhere in Neon Genesis Evangelion by linosan

You wouldn't get it

Spyrith t1_jb2a2g2 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 9:56 PM

But he's right. The ideas are pretty basic philosophy but they are very well executed in the anime medium.

NGEFan t1_jb2cpr7 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 10:15 PM

I don't know, anyone can call any piece of literature pretty basic philosophy. One thing I will say in counterpoint is I've seen more in depth discussion of NGE on forum.evageeks.org than I've seen online for most or all of the fiction I've seen read as part of university philosophy classes. But I'm not sure that matters either. If even one person finds the ideas of the first ancestral race more interesting than Meursault or some much deeper fiction than I can imagine, who is anyone to say they are wrong?

MajorTim1100 t1_jb36ss1 wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:09 AM

Is the first ancestral race supposed to be philosophy? As a quick google search, it's just a creation myth about how that universe came to be right? Not like a Camus character that involves ideas of absurdism that he also wrote essays on separately?

NGEFan t1_jb38g29 wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:22 AM

It's from Neon Genesis Evangelion