I’m not a philosopher, I vaguely remember talking a class in 1981. But this guy is a nihilist and more, he believes all life is filled with pain and suffering. That the greatest evil is to bring a child into the world. He calls for the end of humanity.
Oddly to me he also recognizes nature is full of predators, pain and death. So his solution or hope I suppose is non-existence. A great void of nothingness, all death NO LIFE.
But nothing is just that, it’s devoid of all merit. How can it be something to endeavor to? How can it be superior or good compared to existence when again it’s nothing?
You can dismiss him as a fool but know his job is in fact a PROFESSOR in the UK, and I’m sure many like him are here in the USA. He is the type teaching your kids when you pay 10s of thousands of dollars for them to be educated. Then Your kids come back and wear a Bernie shirt and state they are a new gender or never want to have your grandkids and you say “how did that happen?”.
Well his type happens to them. IMO
All these nihilists tend to be nihilistic towards other people and never themselves.
You'd think the good professor would just put himself out of our misery already, but he apparently likes collecting a pay check, eating good food, maybe taking in a show or tossing back some wine with his fellow miserables.
Our children are our future. To not have children is, in large part, not to have a future to look forward to. Guess this is what some are proposing, but it makes no sense to me.
Of course, once we have the children, then it is our responsibility to bring them up properly. Obviously, this is not being done in many cases, according to the evidence I see.
“Zapffe argued that humans are born with an overdeveloped consciousness (self-reflection, self-knowledge) that is ill-suited to nature’s design”
Truly moronic! So humans are not part of nature?
“Schopenhauer’s philosophy, particularly his idea of the will to live (or will to life), is an inherent drive within all creatures to stay alive and reproduce, which he felt took precedence over reason.”
So not just humans but all life should go extinct and never reappear?
What about planet and stars, since they too are doomed to destruction and death?
Amd why do idiots that believe this do us all a favor and follow through on their belief and off themselves ASAP?
“I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”