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surfcorker t1_je7wvhw wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:29 AM

Reply to comment by joemangle in Kafka sought to unmask the world that hides beneath what we call reality. What mattered to him were our intrinsic, subconscious experiences, in all their absurdity and apparent irrelevance. by IAI_Admin

No it does not. Its like saying eating sand has elements water.

surfcorker t1_jcnfkwb wrote on March 18, 2023 at 2:32 AM

Reply to Schopenhauer and Hegel’s feud was metaphysical: a pessimist who recognised the unchangeable essence of the world and an optimist who saw human history as perpetual growth could never get along. by IAI_Admin

Could they both not be right.

surfcorker t1_j9hhk33 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 12:27 AM

Reply to The harms of gentrification | The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one by ADefiniteDescription

Capitalism cannot afford philosophy. Or morality. Or ethics.

surfcorker t1_j21koqa wrote on December 29, 2022 at 12:08 AM

Reply to comment by Sweeth_Tooth99 in Life is a game we play without ever knowing the rules: Camus, absurdist fiction, and the paradoxes of existence. by IAI_Admin

Suicide ends the game play pretty fast.

surfcorker t1_itsv5zp wrote on October 26, 2022 at 1:27 AM

Reply to The philosophy of Martin Heidegger who argued that the Technological mindset has destroyed our relationship to the world so that Nature is seen as so many resources to exploit. He presents an alternative: a poetic relationship to the world by thelivingphilosophy

The birth of the study of artsyfartsyism.