Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they are corrupters, not edifiers. The desire to be seen to be virtuous, to make a positive contribution, is a deleterious symptom of professionalization. Philosophy's social utility is an ersatz for its duty to mount challenges to the entire social order.
Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity. - Ray Brassier
Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.
- Ray Brassier
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longe… - Ray Brassier
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longe…
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death a… - Ray Brassier
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death a…
If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's… - Ray Brassier
If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's…
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding on… - Ray Brassier
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding on…
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefu… - Ray Brassier
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefu…
Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but sup… - Ray Brassier
Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but sup…
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they … - Ray Brassier
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they …
Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also re… - Ray Brassier
Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also re…
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