Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Dark Way Axioms - Number Seven

Dark Way Axioms - Number Seven

Existence has no purpose or meaning

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The most beloved habit adopted by the human race is that of projecting its modes of operation onto the rest of existence. Perhaps the most common form of anthropomorphizing is assigning a purpose to things, even to existence itself.

In our everyday life, we do things with a result in mind. This result is our purpose or final cause, as the philosophers mi…

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