A Nobel Prize winner's brilliant tirade against mortality

Re:A Nobel Prize winner's brilliant tirade against mortality by keiferski on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:26AM (#41189914)

I mentioned this in my reply to another comment,[1] but for reference, this attitude is called Positivism and unfortunately is a common assumption nowadays.

Another useful concept is the immanent frame, which is an idea by the philosopher Charles Taylor in his book A Secular Age. The basic idea is that society is increasingly becoming focused on this world (immanent) and losing interest in things outside the "frame", like the afterlife. And so the default assumption becomes something like, "There is no afterlife and only this life matters," even if there is really no scientific or philosophical justification for that belief.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188210

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism

3. https://ubcgcu.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/taylor-and-imm...

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Re:A Nobel Prize winner's brilliant tirade against mortality by kessog on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:32AM (#41190352)

Thanks for this. If the modern materialist skeptic did the basest level of research into their own position, perhaps by starting with the likes of David Hume, they would soon realise that their position, and most of their presuppositions, had already been proven impossible several centuries ago (or several millennia ago for some of these presuppositions if we look at Aristotle). The lack of even the most basic philosophical training in even the modern university educated population is frankly appalling.

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