Posts by TauPhi

Considering determinism as harmful or destructive is giving it too much power. I don't think it's such powerful concept. If this is fallacy on my behalf, feel free to point it out but let me explain how I see it.

From Epicurean perspective, wouldn't it be more accurate to consider determinism similar to death? These should be nothing to us as we simply cannot experience them.

You mentioned that '[...] the world revealed to us by our senses / feelings / prolepsis is the only one we have, and the only one we are ever going to have [...]'. I see it exactly the same way. As humans, we perceive time linearly. There's no other way for us. Therefore, it doesn't make any difference if the world is deterministic or non-deterministic. We always experience it in non-deterministic way. Whether free will is objectively true or not, it is true to us. Even if we are automata, we're not able to experience autopilot mode.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for determinism. Not in the slightest. I'm just making a point that determinism seems to be like death. These concepts can be harmful only if we allow them to be by thinking about them in a way that make our lives unpleasant. In reality, we all experience free will in our lives. Then we die and we don't.

Don It is, indeed. There's no good story behind it, I'm afraid. I needed a name when registering and that's what came to my mind. I thought it was good enough so I went with it.

Hello, Fellow Lovers of Wisdom.

Allow me to steal some of your time by introducing myself. I apologise in advance if some of my thoughts are not clearly formulated. I'm not native English speaker.

Philosophy was always something close to my heart. Especially practical philosophy. I guess I can't resist possibility of putting beautiful ideas into practice and see if they work for me. Around two years ago I was reading about Hellenistic age and I discovered a dude with ideas that looked interesting at the first glance. It didn't take me many glances to realise that these interesting ideas were truly beautiful. And so my acquaintance with Epicurus began.

I started to study Epicureanism. The more I studied, the more I loved it. I got to know few other interesting people on the way. Democritus blew my mind with his ideas. Lucretius made me pick up my jaw from the floor more times than I can count (and I can count to ten or so pretty well, most of the times).

Epicurus, Democritus, Lucretius are dead. You are alive. So here I am. Hoping to get to know few more interesting people before we all end up in the Sixth Circle of Hell with smiles on our faces knowing we'd make substantial savings on heating.

Warmly,

TauPhi