Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
(A work in progress, consisting of a hypertext book and a metablog that comments on it.)
Book contents
- Why meaningness?
- Stances: responses to meaningness
- Stances trump systems
- Stances are unstable
- Nebulosity
- Pattern
- Fixation and denial
- Confused stances come in pairs
- No middle way
- Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
- Confusion, completion, misery and joy
- Meaningness as a liberating practice
- The psychological anatomy of a stance
- Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
- Doing meaning better
- The Big Three stance combinations
- Schematic overview: all dimensions
- Meaning and meaninglessness
- The puzzle of meaningness
- Meaningfulness and meaninglessness
- Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
- So how does meaningness work?
- Schematic overview: meaningness
- Eternalism
- I get duped by eternalism in a casino
- The appeal of eternalism
- ⚒ Eternalism is harmful
- Eternalist ploys and their antidotes
- ⚒ Imposing fixed meanings
- ⚒ Smearing meaning all over everything
- ⚒ Magical thinking
- ⚒ Hope
- ⚒ Pretending
- ⚒ Colluding for eternalism
- ⚒ Hiding from nebulosity
- ⚒ Kitsch and naïveté
- ⚒ Armed & armored eternalism
- ⚒ Faith
- ⚒ Thought suppression
- ⚒ Bargaining and recommitment
- ⚒ Wistful certainty
- ⚒ Faithful bafflement
- ⚒ Mystification
- ⚒ Rehearsing the horrors of nihilism
- ⚒ Purification
- ⚒ Fortress eternalism
- Accomplishing eternalism
- Non-theistic eternalism
- Nihilism
- ⚒ Meaningness: the complete stance
- Unity and diversity
- Selfness
- ⚒ Purpose
- ⚒ Personal value
- ⚒ Capability
- ⚒ Ethics: a new beginning
- ⚒ Authority
- ⚒ Sacredness
- ⚒ Contingency
- Meaningness and time: past, present, future
- Appendix: Glossary
- Appendix: Terminological choices
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