YOUTH: So anger is a means to achieve a goal? PHILOSOPHER: That is what teleology says.
YOUTH: Ah, I see now. Under that gentle-looking mask you wear, you’re terribly nihilistic!
Whether we’re talking about anger or my reclusive friend,
all your insights are stuАed with feelings of distrust for human beings!
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PHILOSOPHER: How am I being nihilistic? YOUTH: Think about it. Simply put, you deny human emotion.
You say that emotions are nothing more than tools, that they’re just the means for achieving goals.
But listen. If you deny emotion, you’re upholding a view that tries to deny our humanity, too.
Because it’s our emotions, and the fact that we are swayed by all sorts of feelings, that make us human.
If emotions are denied, humans will be nothing more than poor excuses for machines.
If that isn’t nihilism, then what is? PHILOSOPHER: I am not denying that emotion exists. Everyone has emotions. That goes without saying.
But if you are going to tell me that people are beings who can’t resist emotion, I’d argue against that.
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