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What is the endgame of philosophy?
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What is the endgame of philosophy?
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grow the mind of the animal known as human
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Truth, enlightenment, fulfillment, etc
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What is a "well-motivated position" in philosophy? It's not worth its own thread but I keep seeing it and I don't know what it really means.
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Sophistry.
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>>1045504
>>1045552
Sorry, I meant what is the endgame philosophy*
As in, an all-encompassing philosophical dead-end.
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I think the only logically consistent worldviews are complete life denial/anti-natalism or complete life affirmation to a degree where war, suffering, death, and enjoyment all increase exponentially forever, so Icycalm basically. Everyone in between is a hypocrite, like alt-righters who claim to love Nietzsche but still keep pretenses of morality or whatever

I desperately wish I could find religion, I want off this ride
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>>1045614
Philosophy is one dead end after another.
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>>1045614
Stirner.
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>>1045733
>Nietzsche
>Camus
>Kierkegaard
>Schopenhauer
I wouldn't call Stirner's ideas "all encompassing"
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>>1045501
k selection vs R selection.
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>>1045671
Is there a word for the latter?
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The end of philosophy is basically solipsism
There really is nothing past that point
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>>1045501
>philosophy has an endgame
Philosophy will progressively expand and change as long as human intelligence and knowledge becomes better over the decades, just as technology and civilization does.
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>>1045501
Retain publishing rights.
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Understanding the philosophy of Aristotle.
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