My wife found some suspicious text messages on my phone, but I convinced her I wasn't cheating, therefore...
Kuhn: "is my theory crumbling because I am forced to make an increasing number of ad hoc adjusts, exactly how I described scientific theories crumble before a paradigm shift? No, it's the kids who are wrong."
"True wisdom is knowing that you don't know anything."
"If you don't know anything, then why the hell did I climb this thing?"
"Good point. Perhaps true wisdom is knowing not to climb mountains and ask wise men the meaning of life."
"If you don't know anything, then why the hell did I climb this thing?"
"Good point. Perhaps true wisdom is knowing not to climb mountains and ask wise men the meaning of life."
As John Searle once said: "Nietzsche is like drinking cognac - a sip was good, but you didn't want to drink the whole bottle."
Oh also I forgot one more rule: overthrow the bourgeoisie and create worldwide communism.
The Ethics of Ambiguity was Simone de Beauvoir's attempt to create an ethical system out of the existentialist framework. This is a naturally difficult problem, and one that Sartre tried himself but never really published anything on, because Sartre and de Beauvoir's brand of existentialist centers human freedom, so it becomes very difficult to explain why someone should follow any rules whatsoever, or even why it is worse to authentically be evil. The comic is mostly making fun of the beginning of the work, where she explains the different modes of existence that human beings take, and why they are inauthentic modes of existence. She, rather amusingly, breaks down humanity into five divisions that seem, well...somewhat arbitrary: sub-men (what I called 'losers'), nihilists, adventurers, serious men, and lastly the existential heroes who are following her and Sartre's advice. Of course she doesn't actually think everyone is precisely one of those five types, but more uses them to illustrate how a large number of people flee from their freedom, and thus from their moral responsibility as well.
She does give more positive examples than the comic makes out, like you cannot with consistency use freedom to deny freedom to others. The only way to do this is with a kind of inauthentic, bad faith willing act. If we are to be authentic in the world we must believe the the same thing for others that we believe for ourselves.
She does give more positive examples than the comic makes out, like you cannot with consistency use freedom to deny freedom to others. The only way to do this is with a kind of inauthentic, bad faith willing act. If we are to be authentic in the world we must believe the the same thing for others that we believe for ourselves.