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General Category => Why Bother? => Topic started by: Nation of One on August 11, 2018, 10:23:45 am

Title: Julius Bahnsen
Post by: Nation of One on August 11, 2018, 10:23:45 am

“Man is a self-conscious Nothing.”
      - Julius Bahnsen

I was searching for anything by or about Julius Bahnsen in English, and came around full circle to Julius Bahnsen in English? (http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8971) over at ligotti.net (Thomas Ligotti Online).   That may be our final refuge and place to look for each other (Gorticide) should this board disappear into the Void.

Have you checked it out, Raul?

Here's a link left by Jeff Coleman: Julius Bahnsen (https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxw9fp9u6nyzg8r/Bahnsen.pdf?dl=0)


Radoslav A. Tsanoff tells us that at the heart of Bahnen's philosophical system is an irrational "atheistic individualism, a world-view of the meaningless eternally self-tormenting and self-rending chaos of will-forces: a dismal view of a woeful and futile world: miserabilism is a mild name for it. 
[The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2007 Thomas Ligotti)]

Title: Re: Julius Bahnsen
Post by: Holden on August 11, 2018, 03:09:01 pm

Thanks for the link I will check it out too. I have been reading the western philosophical cannon between math intensive sessions. You see, I am trying to see if the so-called greats of the philosophical cannon starting all the way from the pre-socratics were in any way :1. Pessimistic about life. 2. Were interested in mathematics.

And I am glad to tell you that I have found certain very interesting things. What Schopenhauer says also becomes clearer.
I found this in one of the articles in Guardian:

Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Bentham all went unmarried.

Closer to our own time, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and Wittgenstein were all unmarried and childless.

Hegel married and had children. ::)

PS: Please don't think I am trying to mix metaphysics with mathematics-I know at present you are primarily interested in maths. Well, for the present, so am I.

Title: Re: Julius Bahnsen
Post by: Nation of One on November 28, 2021, 10:28:52 am

Every now and then, I feel compelled to "bump" an old post back to the surface of our aquarium  of ideas.

Radoslav A. Tsanoff tells us that at the heart of Bahnen's philosophical system is an irrational "atheistic individualism, a world-view of the meaningless eternally self-tormenting and self-rending chaos of will-forces: a dismal view of a woeful and futile world: miserabilism is a mild name for it. 

In attempting to settle on some kind of label or "camp," I would prefer not to split hairs between "Transcendental Idealism" and "Transcendental Realism" - or between monism (One Will) versus multiplicity (countless wills).   I do like the idea of accepting contradictions, and even feel compelled to surrender to total nonsense.

Maybe I admire NJ Wildberger for his calmness, clarity, and confidence to really get to the heart of understanding.   He is truly a rationalist.   I wish to embrace contradiction; that is, I wish to be philosophically irrational and mathematically rational.   :D