Kowani wrote:Well, yeah. I just have no idea how they got there. My knowledge of US Law is quite limited.Camelone wrote:From what I’ve gathered the judicial doctrine of judicial review came about from the Supreme Court case Marbury v Madison but I’ve always found the logic a little shaky constitutionally.Camelone wrote:So there is no way to attain the good life, only maximize our own personal pleasure? Nihilism has always felt to me the philosophy of throwing your hands up and saying I give up in the pursuit of truth. The entire pursuit is about struggling, reflection, challenging, and expanding ones ability to find what it means to attain the good life and the means to order society in a way to promote the good life.
I will quote my response to a TG asking me about my nihilism.
I suppose the thing is that I don’t see nihilism as opposed to optimism. Yeah, on the cosmic scale, nothing we do matters. We die, our descendants’ll die, the sun’ll die, and the universe will eventually become uninhabitable. But we don’t experience things on the cosmic scale, we experience them on the lifetime scale. Our experiences, because of the fact that we can experience them, have inherent value to us. Life is not inherently suffering and pain, it is just life. What you choose to take away from those experiences is up to you. You have one life, one attempt. So, why not make it as enjoyable as possible?
(No longer quoting)
Nihilism is not the search for truth, but rather, the realization and acceptance of that truth, that what we do is not relevant in the long term, but that does not mean that it is meaningless. The good life is the one you live, no more, no less.
Ah I see so two completely different world views we have then.