2026-08-24 20:21 UTC
Hence I am only slightly surprised that E. Z. Yudkowsky felt that Harry Potter was an ideal vessel into which he could pour his own ideas. There's a lengthy tradition of philosophical writers employing fictive frameworks in which they can present (for example) dialogues between characters intended to elaborate philosophical ideas in a speculative manner.
(cont'd)
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:23
When Nietzsche wanted to pass along the news that maybe God was dead, he wrote a fable about a madman with a lantern, going around looking for evidence of God, peering into everyone's faces because surely if God were to be found somewhere it'd be in human belief. Did anyone around Nietzsche still believe in God? His fable, a very small part of The Gay Science, suggests that all such belief had died out of the world, at least the European world. (cont'd)