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Lucifer's Question

Lucifer's Question

Van Allen, T. K.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN13: 9798303675940
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 14 2024
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is a collection of essays on society, culture, biology, psychology and philosophy. Most were written during 2021-2023. They are tied together by the following themes:
  • Philosophical questions of value/purpose.
  • The implications of evolution for human nature and society.
  • The problems of modern civilization.
  • The implications of being a reproducing machine.
  • The implications of being a brain in a skull.
  • Rationality and irrationality.
  • Culture and how it emerges from human psychology and social interaction.
The main theme is value/purpose. The first essay, The Ghost of Adam Lanza, takes us down a dark rabbit-hole, where we find eulavism, the philosophical rejection of value. In later essays, I explore other philosophical positions with regard to value: humanism, sentientism and efilism. I explain why I reject hedonism and altruism. At the end of the book, the walrus and the carpenter discuss the abyss and the purpose of life.

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