/lit/ - Literature

>>13779759
Read Hume and then go to Kant if you need some extra supplement. Frankly if you're not interested in history and you're just looking to vaccinate yourself against clever word games that's all you need.

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>>6700400
>Pessimism is nothing but a universalised negative value judgement.
Every philosophical branch in the lines of pessimism, nihilism, optimism, etc. has nothing of a negative value judgement, and it's utterly retarded to think of it that way.
Their aim is mainly ease the pain of mankind, and pessimist believe their experience less pain than optimist for example, that often fool themselves into self-deception. You don't seem too well-read in the matter, for it is not a matter of opinion -like several posts seem to consider judgement- but a consideration of human psychology and how the world is experienced. Hardly matter the objective reality if there is such thing, or whatever good can the life bring to people, but only the claim that the pessimist state of mind will avoid the greatest degree of unhappiness than other ways of thinking.
"Everything sucks" it's a rather dull misrepresentation of pessimism, reducing the whole doctrine to a straw man that you can easily criticize.

>>6670575
;^)

>>6525710
>sam haris

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Has Harris ever read Hume?

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