/lit/ - Literature

>>11215604
Every creature was a stepping stone to something greater than themselves. And yet humans would rather go back to beasts than be overcome and surpassed

>>11187632
Yes the world exists in an objective state, the arrangement of molecules, sure. But as living beings we live in the subjective world. Our entire system of perception is subjective. If every man suddenly died his works, paintings, chairs, literature, you name it, would still remain physically but their subjective properties (which are usually far more important) would not.

The painting is most certainly not an "objective" object because its properties go far and beyond being pigment on canvas, what makes it a painting is play between its forms and the observer's mind. Without an observer there's no difference between the works of K.A. Applegate and Dostoevsky, aside from mass.

And what arranges your behavior is by no means the objective properties of the matter around you.

>>11176494
They maintain Christian moral axioms without any rational proof of them. In fact all axiomatic value judgments are irrational. You can't rationally establish that life is better than death, that pleasure is better than pain, that generosity is better than cruelty. Usually they try and use the greasiest good for the greatest number, but again, consensus is not rational proof.

They're laughable really. Despite being fervent anti Christians they are the last champion of the moral framework created by it. In that respect they're more akin to Christian heretics than actual atheists

>>11131970
>This world is the will to power—and nothing besides!

>rationally derived moral good