MAJOR QUESTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY

I Nihilism: No Meaning at All

Friedrich Nietzsche: “God’ is dead”

Naturalism: materialism-physicalism

The world

Man’s origin, destiny & purpose

Bertrand Russell

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his love and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocation of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotions, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins….”

Peter Singer

“Life as a whole had no meaning. Life began, as the best available theories tell us, in a chance combination of molecules; it then evolved through random mutations and natural selection. All this just happened; it did not happen for any purpose.”

Albert Camus: Myth of Sissypus

Consistency & test of livability