grendel philosophies

cycles and repetition

time repeats in a neverending loop back to its starting point

solipsism

only your mind exists; everyone else’s is unknowable, lil narcissistic

sophistry

clever, fallacious, or misleading arguments to convince someone something is true when it isn’t

Old Testament theology

moral structure to the universe, strong sense of right, wrong, justice, vengeance, breaking of covenants, God is order from chaos

Dualism

There are two seperate domains (good vs evil, mind vs body) which are fundamentally separate, opposite, and with clear distinctions which make up most of the world, competes with materialism in which mind and body are ultimately physical.

Nihilism

nothing has any inherent meaning or purpose

materialism

physical matter is the fundamental substance of nature, emphasis on achieving more

skepticism

questioning or unsure of life and at the same time believing that absolute knowledge or certainty is impossible - agnostic ish

New testament theology

forgiveness, redemption

machiavellianism

Indifference to empathy and morality, a part of the dark triad (with narcissism and psychopathy). Politics is amoral and thus it’s okay to lie cheat and steal your way to the top

Anarchism

rejects centralized government, supports individual freedoms and equality, voluntary cooperation, often just an intermediate phase

mysticism process

everything is connected and changing, nothing exists alone, truth comes from experience, reality is more about becoming than being.

Nietzsche

Enlightenment and science eliminate God as a rational cause of worldly events, leading to a loss of faith in the divine moral order, therefore, people have to create their own values, like the Ubermensch, someone who rises above nihilism, people should find their own purpose

Existentialism

Nothing is preordained, we have absolute choice and free will, completely accountable for our actions (condemned to be free), other people’s perception of us challenges our freedom, individual’s objective experience is the only immediate certainty, making our own meaning of life is the absurd, no inherent responsibility towards others

empiricism

all knowledge derived from sensory experience, observation, and trial and error—John Locke.