Category: Philosophy
Philosophical Essays
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Nihilism is Almost Spiritual
The current project I’m working on is to organize the most fundamental arguments of my philosophy in their most striped down logical forms in an interconnected web like knowledgebase using Obsidian. I’ve set a rough deadline for this project to be the end of the year. Then, I’ll put some rhetorical meat on the logical…
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Early Signs of My Emerging Philosophy
An old piece showing my philosophy taking shape even before I considered myself a philosopher.
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Put Your Puppy on a Leash: My Take on Meditation
In which I describe my new meditation technique using visual focus to control mental attention.
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A Routine for Rational Nihilists
In which I talk about the routine I’ve developed from a nihilistic point of view.
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DEVLOG 6: A Temporary But Indefinite Pause in Development
Announcement I got stuck about a month ago. The stuck-ness led to some expected negative emotions and thoughts but that was dealt with much greater ease than ever before. Eventually, I got un-stuck but it led to some big changes in how I live and how I wish to proceed with my philosophy project. I’ll…
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Reframing Claim About Knowledge 1.0
Breadcrumbs: Philosophy/ItRaP/Epistemology/Knowledge Reframing Claim: Let’s consider Knowledge and Belief as mutually exclusive sets. The Traditional Structure In traditional western philosophy knowledge is usually considered to be true justified belief. It can be shown in the following Venn diagram. All of our beliefs are taken as a universal set. True beliefs are a subset of all…
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DEVLOG 5: Exciting Times
Strong progress continues on the project. There’s also excitement of getting into the actual philosophy now. Till now I was focused on explaining what I’m trying to do and why I’m doing it and pre-empting any objections. But all that is done for now and there’s excitement ahead. Completed Tasks Reflections Woohoo! Got a lot…
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DEVLOG 4: Trimming the Fat from the Kernel
Since the last devlog, there’s been significant progress—not just in the structure of my philosophical system, but also in how I’ve begun applying it to my own life. It started with a core question: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? I found myself challenging the traditional pursuit of “success” and realized that…
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A Simple Introduction to My Project
I’ve tried to explain what I’m doing on the Home page and the Start Here page. But I realize now that it still might be confusing to a new visitor: What exactly is this project? As Einstein (supposedly) said, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Every time I try…
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Devlog 3: Focusing on the Process Instead of the Result
Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I started this, almost a month long period, by deciding to focus on the YouTube video on absurdism that I’ve been working on, but soon I changed my mind and continued to work on both YouTube and philosophy. I started working on the ItRaN page and moved some stuff from the…
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Rudya Aditya 