The misguided pursuit of existentialism and absurdism in combatting nihilism
Meaning is good. Lack of meaning is bad. Therefore, nihilism is bad, so it should be combated. But, what is "meaning" exactly? A purpose of sorts, apparently. Yet, who precisely defines what this purpose entails? The self. What a convenient abstract concept to use, almost as if you could write...
May 26, 2022-3
There's no essay to write because the argument is simple: reductio ad absurdum & proof by contradiction. Saying it in this form makes it more entertaining, and it's pointless to add more jargon on top of it. If you wish to appropriate it, here it is but written in an even shorter form:
If two choices have the same utility (nihilism is objective) then you are stuck with the current one, i.e., since you are alive, then Spinozian conatus is the objective meaning of life
The triviality of the statement that you had pointed out is the core of the issue: interpreting meaning as a preference relation.