List: Morality | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Nov 5, 2024
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Morality
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How to Live Well in an Indifferent UniverseA critique of four ways of understanding morality
Aug 7, 2023
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Aug 7, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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What’s the Most Important Human Trait?Hint: it’s what makes people different from animals
Dec 28, 2023
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Dec 28, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Are We Guilty of Progressing?The minefield of meta-ethics and the amorality of human advancement
Jan 28, 2022
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Jan 28, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Life’s Key Secrets are TheatricalOur curtain call, and the suspension of doubt that entertains life
Feb 28, 2024
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Feb 28, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Uncomplicated Core of ExistentialismWhy existential philosophy doesn’t have to be a surfeit of pretentious obscurities
Feb 13, 2023
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Feb 13, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How to be Existentially Mature in an Infantile SocietyPrehistoric and late-modern immaturity, and the key to reckoning with our common plight
Aug 17, 2023
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Aug 17, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Why Personal Authenticity Still MattersA sociological critique of existentialism
Mar 4, 2024
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Mar 4, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The One Occult Project that’s IndispensableGetting from the consumer’s small-minded selfishness to a heroic far-future mindset
Jan 1, 2024
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Jan 1, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Human Pride Isn’t Just Arbitrary ArroganceThe glory and strangeness of recognizing life’s basic condition
May 1, 2024
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May 1, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
No, Nihilists, Morality Isn’t Vacuous in NatureThe vindication of humanistic values, despite the failure of their religious justifications
Apr 8, 2024
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Apr 8, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
When Misanthropes Claim the Moral High GroundThe perversity and incoherence of preachy antinatalism
May 9, 2024
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May 9, 2024
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Benjamin Cain
Must All Wisdom be Perverted for it to have Mass Appeal?The occultist’s paradoxical longing for social transformation
Jan 25, 2024
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Jan 25, 2024
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Is Civilization the Triumph of Slave Morality?Nietzsche on “progress” as the resentment that drives our revolt against nature
Jul 17, 2023
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Jul 17, 2023
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Benjamin Cain
Can Pragmatists be Existentialists?The American propaganda in Richard Rorty’s pragmatism
Mar 10, 2023
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Mar 10, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Myth that Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Go TogetherContrary to maudlin assurances about those three “transcendentals,” they’re not united
Sep 7, 2023
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Sep 7, 2023
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God’s Funeral
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Benjamin Cain
Can We Justify Humanist Values?A debate between a Christian and a secular humanist
Apr 5, 2024
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Apr 5, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How Society Splinters when Life is AbsurdFour existential coping strategies, and the relevance of gross social inequalities
Jun 5, 2023
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Jun 5, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Is Happiness Ever Honourable if Life is Absurd?Or should we always feel ashamed for forgetting the big picture?
Jul 10, 2023
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Jul 10, 2023
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Happiness is for SheepThe hyperaware are obliged to suffer
May 23, 2020
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May 23, 2020
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The Apeiron Blog
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Benjamin Cain
Who Deserves to be Happy?Why happiness ought to be rare.
Sep 18, 2020
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Sep 18, 2020
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