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Deeds and Conversations Shall Not Be Written Down

Summary/Abstract: The natural biological need for expansion and the confirmation of one’s existence either via offspring, accomplished deeds, or material and spiritual products are nourished by the illusion of indestructibility and the eternal memory of archives, which shall record all deeds and conversations. Meanwhile, nothing survives, omnis moriar. Certain philosophers (Nietzsche, Cioran) recognise the need for illusion and self-deception as an essential expression of life. Non-existence, therefore, and consequently nothingness comprise an encounter with the non-fictitious, a departure from the world of illusion. That, which actually exists, is nothingness. Evaluation (axiology of all sorts) is recognised as valuable and constitutes a bio-cultural motor stoking desires. The latter are a source of suffering. An attempt at thinking outside all axiology is Heidegger’s effort in a polemic with Nietzsche. There exists an urgent need for critical reflection on thoughtlessly linking existence and good. The Buddhist stifling of desires, consistently devised, denotes recognition of the absence of value. If nothing is valuable then, ultimately, nothing deserves to be desired. Only in this way may we consistently conceive that much vaunted nirvana.

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