Originally Posted by David Jamieson
Scott, are you practicing passive nihilism?
matter exists whether or not we do. example, my grandfather is dead, but the world still exists despite that he no longer percieves it.
And thus we enter the great debate of philosophy...
First of all, David, I belive you have it backwards...
What Scott is espousing is Schopenhauerian "World as Will and Idea" which comes directly from the Platonic Ideas (The Thing Itself)
Your response quoted above, is in fact a summed up version of Nietzche's response to and rejection of this concept.
To Nietzche, the mind was created by the body to serve its needs and not the other way around. Thus the mind being the "plaything" of the body.
He called this the great mistake, the error from which all philosophy had proceeded.
Who is right?
Who is wrong?
Did the chicken come first or was it the egg?
Everything is energy, not matter.
Matter is composed of energy.
Energy is not composed of matter.
E=mc2
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