Coming to terms with the void – Philosophical meaning and learning to flirt with non-existence
An exploration of philosophy, meaning vs meaninglessness , the void, existence and non-existence, philosophical pessimism
- Timestamps : Introduction to the concepts – 0:00
- Religion and the loss of a structure of meaning – 02:02
- Nietzsche and the death of God – 03:36 Eternal recurrence existentialism – Satre, Camus etc – 5:00
- Nietzsche misunderstood – 07:39
- Emil Cioran – The humorous miserabilist of nihilism 09:17
- Philosophical pessimism – Things don’t always improve and entropy 11:35
- The end of the universe – 14:00 (https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA Timeline of the future video mentioned)
- Phillip Mainlander – the tragic pessimist – 15:50
- Taking the black pill and limits – 17:58
- The key questions for the new future (the death of God) – 20:10
Links / mentions –
- Emil Cioran
- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2855.A_Short_History_of_Decay
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117564.The_Trouble_with_Being_Born
- Phillip Mainlander
- https://medium.com/swlh/the-philosopher-who-took-his-own-life-c5f70b8094da
- Good primer on mainlander from Jonas Čeika – CCK Philosophy https://youtu.be/nnJmA9_dkP0
- full text on philosophy of redemption https://www.docdroid.net/Bj0oMLa/mainlander-philosophy-of-redemption-pdf
- Nietzsche
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12321.Beyond_Good_and_Evil
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