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God is Dead | Nietzsche

German philosopher Friedrick Nietzsche famously announced the death of the Christian God in his 1882 work The Gay Science. In this video, I analyze aphorism 125, “The Madman”, to reveal all the hidden meanings behind Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God. For Nietzsche, the most significant development is the creation of a new type of nihilism, theoretical nihilism. What happens to truth, knowledge, morality, society when God dies?

Citations:
Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche and Philosophy, translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Columbia University Press, New York, 1983. Buy here.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1974. Buy here.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. Translated by Walter Kaufman, The Viking Press, 1966. Buy here.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Translated by Reginald John Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 2003. Buy here.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, translated by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1989. Buy here.

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Is Your Science Legit?

Legit question.

Here are the 6 Criteria you need to know in order to determine whether a theory is scientific or not.

  1. We have to accept that searching for confirmations of our theory is actually really easy… too easy.
  2. Confirmations should only be considered scientific if it is the result of a risky prediction, or a hypothesis that was meant to refute the theory, but instead confirmed it.
  3. Every good scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
  4. A theory which cannot be refuted or is irrefutable is not scientific.
  5. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify or refute it, not confirm it.
  6. No ad hoc explanations of a theory to escape falsifying evidence. We can’t reinterpret our theory in such a way that it escapes refutation.

This list was created by philosopher Karl Popper.

Karl Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994)

Citations:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper. Routledge, 2002.

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let us be on our guard | nietzsche

From aphorism 109 of the book The Gay Science by Friedrick Nietzsche.

Citations: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. “Let us be on our Guard!” The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1974, aphorism 109.

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The Madman – Nietzsche

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The words of a madman:

God is dead!

God remains dead!

And WE have killed him!

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Citations:

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. “The Madman.” The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, New York, 1974, aphorism 125.

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Science vs Pseudoscience | Problems in Philosophy of Science

How do we determine whether a theory is scientific or not? What gives science the credibility and authority that it commands? In philosophy of science, this is called the demarcation problem: how do we demarcate between science & pseudoscience. Some philosophers believed if you could find confirmations of your theory, then it must be true. But, philosopher Karl Popper proposed a different method. Instead of trying to find more confirmations of our theories, we should be doing everything we can to FALSIFY OUR THEORIES, BIIIITCH!!!

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Sources:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Routledge, 2002. Buy here.

Einstein, Albert. Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition by Albert Einstein. Translated by Robert W. Lawson, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1961. Buy here.

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature, Barnes & Noble, New York, NY, 2005. Buy here.

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November Nihilism

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UPDATE: Because Nihilism means that nothing has meaning anymore, I’ve decided to say fuck calendars, it’s November Nihilism for as long as I want.

Announcing November Nihilism. This month I will be focusing on videos, essays, and journalism that analyzes nihilism, or a willing-towards-nothing.

I will heavily rely on the philosophy of Friedrick Nietzsche, which is always freakin awesome.

Here’s a sneak peak of what to expect:

Also, all TL;DR philosophy for this month will be profoundly EVIL!

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How to Destroy Metaphysics?

Both philosophers Martin Heidegger and Rudolph Carnap wanted to see metaphysics destroyed, but they had very different ways of going about this. In 1929, Heidegger gave a speech entitled “What is Metaphysics?” Three years later, Carnap wrote an essay called “The Elimination of Metaphysics Through the Logical Analysis of Language” attacking Heidegger’s speech as meaningless mumbo-jumbo. Heidegger never responded, but we can imagine what might of happened if they swung philosophical swords against each other.

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