Sunny Jack
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Hi there,
I just wondered what the Peatarian response would be towards the Nihilist perspective? Nihilism being "the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life." I know that the evolutionary, non-theistic view suggests this idea, and I know also that the Neo-Darwinist/Dawkins perspective is at least unpopular on this forum, since it is too fatalistic and ignores certain Lamarckian/epigenetic phenomena. But Peat's view seems to be inexorably pro-life, and I wondered whether there was a credible alternate to atheistic nihilism beyond the passive-aggressive "well why don't you just kill yourself if you feel that way?" response.
Moreover, does the Peat view give a reason for living, or does it assume that those who have chosen life would wish to be healthy, which (in fact) I and most of us here do? Is there a Schopenhauerian pessimism or a Nietzschean (or other) optimism prevalent?
I just wondered what the Peatarian response would be towards the Nihilist perspective? Nihilism being "the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life." I know that the evolutionary, non-theistic view suggests this idea, and I know also that the Neo-Darwinist/Dawkins perspective is at least unpopular on this forum, since it is too fatalistic and ignores certain Lamarckian/epigenetic phenomena. But Peat's view seems to be inexorably pro-life, and I wondered whether there was a credible alternate to atheistic nihilism beyond the passive-aggressive "well why don't you just kill yourself if you feel that way?" response.
Moreover, does the Peat view give a reason for living, or does it assume that those who have chosen life would wish to be healthy, which (in fact) I and most of us here do? Is there a Schopenhauerian pessimism or a Nietzschean (or other) optimism prevalent?