NeoNihilism The Philosophy of Power (Audible Audio Edition) Peter SjöstedtH Peter SjöstedtH Books
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This text concisely puts forward the case for a form of nihilism - fusing thoughts from Hume, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, amongst others. It forcefully argues that morality as we know it is a power structure disguised as knowledge; that law is based upon this false idol; and that thus power is, in fact, the basis of all life.
This text inspired the recreation of the Marvel philosopher superhero Karnak.
Written by the Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H.
Peter Sjöstedt-H is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher with specialization in the thought of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Whitehead, and within the Philosophy of Mind. Following his studies in philosophy at Warwick University, Peter became a philosophy lecturer in London for six years. He is currently engaged in his PhD at Exeter University where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills. Peter is the author of the paperback Noumenautics, and an inspiration behind the new inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.
NeoNihilism The Philosophy of Power (Audible Audio Edition) Peter SjöstedtH Peter SjöstedtH Books
"Concise", that seems to be the recurring word when referring to Peter Sjöstedt-H, and it is apt. Firstly, I didn't come across this book to look for a justification of the malign, that is always attributed to the Nihilist. I came to a philosophical personal 'crisis' where it became apparent to me that any basis for Morals or Ethics became questionable, I looked in vain from Normative Ethics to Applied Ethics, they all were laking logic. Meta- Ethics then, but the basis; surely there has to be some foundation?- No! From examples in nature to cultures highest ideals - no basis, the hole widened the more I searched. However you approach morality, from Ayn Rand's 'Objectivism' to the absurdities of Utilitarianism to what in my mind is one of the greatest fallacies - Humanism, Mr. Sjöstedt-H brings a weapon most potent! I can't praise this philosopher enough. For the curious or skeptical, look him up on Facebook or Youtube he is 'Ontologistics'Product details
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NeoNihilism The Philosophy of Power (Audible Audio Edition) Peter SjöstedtH Peter SjöstedtH Books Reviews
Insightful from the Author's perspective.
I was reading Warren Ellis' newsletter and he'd mentioned this book, it's about power structure, and the viewing the world as it is and not how we're told it is. You feel kind of free after reading, and it shouldn't take you long.
This summed up my view perfectly, in addition clarified some of the questions I had.
This book may be short, but it holds a world-destroying power!
A short book that is insightful but needed to be fleshed out. The three premises built on subsets of prior philosophy seem to entail a leap that where the will to power was posited as a good derived from descriptions of human relations which would violate the authors dependence on Hume's is-ought distinction. Only in the last few paragraphs does the author make it clear that it is not truth as such only the moral imperatives arrived from truths and it is not values as such, just any attempt to make values objective and thus universal that is a problem. He does show that this is not moral relativism in that moral relativism has a conclusion respect different moral systems that is in contradiction to it with its premise, there is no universal morality and this his neo-nihilism is different. That said it does not seem that different from Heideggerian existentialism. Furthermore, many assertions in this book, such a Nietzsche's dependence on and critique of Kant, could be very long book topics in and of themselves. This essay is far from perfect but it is interesting.
Just got it tonight and up to this point I can say this is a very interesting and well written short book. Short but powerful and direct to the main points.
I am not an atheist but an evangelical, reformed Christian. However, that being said, I must say how much I really enjoyed this book. What is most refreshing is the honesty that is displayed with regards to morality when the same is placed into the context of the atheistic worldview. I can really appreciate how the author follows his presuppositions to their logical conclusions, as opposed to the incorporation of fallacious reasoning to maintain morality within a worldview that excludes a supreme moral law giver.
The core of this short outpouring of thought, as I opine it, is the refutation of the foundations of thinking as possessing an inherent basis.
To use a buddhist term 'the emptiness of emptiness.' I will be looking for more works by this author.
"Concise", that seems to be the recurring word when referring to Peter Sjöstedt-H, and it is apt. Firstly, I didn't come across this book to look for a justification of the malign, that is always attributed to the Nihilist. I came to a philosophical personal 'crisis' where it became apparent to me that any basis for Morals or Ethics became questionable, I looked in vain from Normative Ethics to Applied Ethics, they all were laking logic. Meta- Ethics then, but the basis; surely there has to be some foundation?- No! From examples in nature to cultures highest ideals - no basis, the hole widened the more I searched. However you approach morality, from Ayn Rand's 'Objectivism' to the absurdities of Utilitarianism to what in my mind is one of the greatest fallacies - Humanism, Mr. Sjöstedt-H brings a weapon most potent! I can't praise this philosopher enough. For the curious or skeptical, look him up on Facebook or Youtube he is 'Ontologistics'
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