In 1942, Robert A. Heinlein imagined a civilization that responds to nihilism not with dogma, but with a centuries-long research project. Today, Oxford philosophers are proposing something similar.
The journey of humans unfolds it continues to discover and we participants and observers detect and analyze patterns in history. We have constructed and evolve institutions that in some way push this journey. We have constructed ethic systems that push this journey, which might be seen as having common characteristics such as combining ideas, practices and art that reinforce procreation, discovery, productivity and rising to challenge. The source of these being adjustment by persons applying them to the situation at hand, and the demographic selection of more effective ethic systems raising more stable children, who go on to raise more stable children and over generations weeding out dysfunctional ethics.
The large senior ethic systems more than 2 millennium old have these traits: Abrahamic, Indic, materialism, and ancestor veneration. Due to this source they are inherently oriented in favor of human journey. The younger liberal neutrality toward ethics and its woke victimology coddling version contradicts basic attributes of ethics systems such as challenge, competition, procreation and responsibility, and in this sense appears as a soft nihilism. Heinlein’s research proposal appears predicated on rejection of existing ethic systems. Exploring why they should be rejected might be the first investigation. EA is being formally learned into some LLM. We see GAI assist teen suicides, which is a direct reasoning from neutral ethics and absolute individual freedom. It appears the rejection of existing ethics becomes a formation of nihilism.
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The journey of humans unfolds it continues to discover and we participants and observers detect and analyze patterns in history. We have constructed and evolve institutions that in some way push this journey. We have constructed ethic systems that push this journey, which might be seen as having common characteristics such as combining ideas, practices and art that reinforce procreation, discovery, productivity and rising to challenge. The source of these being adjustment by persons applying them to the situation at hand, and the demographic selection of more effective ethic systems raising more stable children, who go on to raise more stable children and over generations weeding out dysfunctional ethics.
The large senior ethic systems more than 2 millennium old have these traits: Abrahamic, Indic, materialism, and ancestor veneration. Due to this source they are inherently oriented in favor of human journey. The younger liberal neutrality toward ethics and its woke victimology coddling version contradicts basic attributes of ethics systems such as challenge, competition, procreation and responsibility, and in this sense appears as a soft nihilism. Heinlein’s research proposal appears predicated on rejection of existing ethic systems. Exploring why they should be rejected might be the first investigation. EA is being formally learned into some LLM. We see GAI assist teen suicides, which is a direct reasoning from neutral ethics and absolute individual freedom. It appears the rejection of existing ethics becomes a formation of nihilism.
I am curious how the moral philosophers would what evaluate the premises set forth in Ayn Rand's Objectivism .