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‟Through the heaven of civilization, the human being seeks to isolate himself from the world, to break its hostile power.”
– The Unique and Its Property,Max Stirner
Howdy, I'm 
LordCompost, and this is my user page.
I am an 
Egoist, 
Pragmatist, 
Post-Civilisationist, 
Iconoclast, and 
Anti-Humanist.
I am influenced by a variety of schools, most notably by 
Post-Analytic Philosophy, 
Psychoanalysis, 
German Idealism, 
Political Nihilism, and by various 
Post-Structuralist thinkers.
My interests lie in 
Epistemology, 
Philosophy of Religion, and to a lesser extent, 
Political Science.
Theory
Epistemology & Metaphysics
Convention and Contradiction
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on convention and knowledge revision.
1. All knowledge, truth, fact, etc., is conventional and grounded in belief/faith (subjectively accepted).
2. All knowledge, Et al., is open to revision, being neither universal nor necessary.
3. All knowledge, Et al., is individual; intersubjective convention exists only in the mind of determinate and embodied individuals, each having their own version of this social truth.
4. All knowledge, Et al., is perspectival; no 'view from nowhere' exists.
5. The above claims are also open to revision and the charge that they are merely conventional.
Scepticism and Hypostasis
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on scepticism, the search for truth, and hypostasis.
1. There is no objective truth, only conventional and social belief.
2. The continuing search for such truth, such as by sceptics like Pyrrhonists, leads to the incorrect development of established "truth." Instead, we should continue to revise our language and theories to be more useful.
3. Without truth, we have pragmatic belief, i.e., what is descriptionally and predictively useful. I reject the 'No Miracles' argument[1], noting that previous "incorrect beliefs" have also been useful.
4. All objects, entities, beings, etc., are merely useful fictions; entities ranging from numbers and bosons to tables and planets are only posits of theories and do not exist without them.
5. No theory correctly 'discovers' objects; to think so would be to hypostasize these thoughts.
Entities and Essence
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on entities and essences.
1. All objects, Et al., can be radically reconceived, redefined, and re-understood; thus, there is nothing essential underneath our description of them.
2. All objects, Et al., are nothing 'in-themselves' and are entirely dependent on relations and descriptions.
3. All objects, Et al., are 'real' in the sense that if we accept them and use them effectively, they are real for us, true for us, etc., conventionally.
4. There is no substance that stands underneath and no whole that stands above entities that can ground an ever-evolving linguistic description.
5. There is no ultimate difference between human and non-human “entities;” they are definable and redefinable all the way down.
Paradigms and Fixed Ideas
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on historicism, constructivism, and incommensurability.
1. All knowledge, Et al., is taken to be universal and or necessary. I disagree; it is situationally, casually, and materially grounded in what is useful, accepted, and meaningful in each period or location.
2. All knowledge, Et al., revision, change, and development involves negation, that is, alteration from one thing to another within the same 'genus'.[2]
4. All knowledge, Et al., revision involves the 'fixed idea' of truth itself; we may throw out this or that truth, but we always remain within the truth. The fact that truth exists is 'always' true for us.
4. All knowledge, Et al., exists within the boundaries of what can be said and what is true; i.e., Catholics in the High Middle Ages could only do philosophy religiously; they couldn't question its truth
5. Thus, each truth[3] and truth itself is sacred and non-critiqueable. It is not ours to shape; it has nothing to do with our interests or situations; it exists merely as a "force" above us.
Rhetoric and Belief
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on belief, persuasion, and relativism.
1. All knowledge, Et al., exists due to power relations; these arise from factors such as education, position, fame, 'natural' ability[4], and social acceptance.
2. Individuals are inherently linked with their environment (material and social) and are strongly determined by its influence; individuals are co-opted into language, ideology, culture, etc.,
3. Politics, culture, economics, etc., are thus grounded in propaganda and rhetoric; political consent is manufactured by these factors.
4. Social reasoning evolved to better help individuals convince others of their thoughts and not to discover the truth[5].
5. Evolution, social effectiveness, and predictive ability are all subject to our view of causality; however, this does not mean that causality is metaphysically real; it is also conventional and merely correlative.
Philosophy of Religion
Religious Knowledge
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on religious truth, existence, and relevance.
1. Religion, as with every other discipline, has an equal claim to truth; no discipline can justify itself internally and relies on external narratives.
2. Religion and religious experience/knowledge are true for those who trust religion, just as science is true for those who trust science.[6]
3. Religion, spirituality, and truth are a matter of faith; no one can be 'forced' to be convinced or accept facts; it is reliant on belief.
4. Religion, however, is always a relation of fixity, which stifles change, creativity, and development, even if such stagnation is 'necessary' for things such as the law or society.[7]
5. Religion that is, currently existing historical 'faiths'[8] are no longer effective, explanative, or pragmatically useful.
Religious Experience
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on faith, religion in general, and dogma.
1. Religion can be separated into Positive/Objective Religion and Subjective Religion.
2. Objective Religion is a collection of facts, rituals, histories, texts, etc., i.e., dogma.
3. Subjective Religion is the individual acceptance, faith, or belief in aspects of religion, such as God or the soul.
4. Acceptance, faith, belief, etc., relates to the sacred; that is, what is set apart and forbidden, i.e., what is "true" for that religion.
5. One cannot be religious merely by knowing objective religion; it relies on subjective religion, which relates individuals to sacrality.
Projection and Freedom
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on projection, self-consciousness, and essentialism.
1. Religion arises from physiological and psychological desires; it is a desire to be free of nature, which is man's weakest state.
2. Religion supplies what is missing, or lacking from human existence; i.e., liberate humanity from natural dependence
3. It is also a desire to be immortal, powerful, safe, returned to nature, etc.; these all arise naturally.
4. Religion establishes self-consciousness, that is, the consciousness of humanity as free from, or as other to, nature.
5. Perceived essential human traits are projected onto entities powerful enough to break the human dependence on or separation from nature.
Cohesion and Civilisation
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on social cohesion, civilisation, and the law.
1. Society, or sociality, relies on a collective norm that governs relations, religion lies at the base of social cohesion.
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Mythology and Art
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on art, mythology, and community.
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Paganism and Theism
These are the five 'main' principles of my views on paganism and monotheism.
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Beliefs
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Notes
- ↑ The success of science would be miraculous if scientific theories were not at least approximately true descriptions of the world.
- ↑ I take this view from
Plato's Sophist, where he argues that negation is just difference - i.e., not-small still means a size, either big or the same.
- ↑ Obviously, during its time; "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer.
- ↑ What is seen to be a natural ability, such as
Kant's conception of Genius, or 
Lacan's 'Subject-Supposed-To-Know'.
- ↑ Again, this is the most current and 'predictively' effective research in evolutionary psychology; it is subject to revision and is not 'true'.
- ↑ Following
Goodman's argument for Irrealism, which is as follows. A) The Earth is flat (is true) or B) the Earth is round (is true); these are logically incompatible, but how do we choose? We could say the Earth is flat is true for flat Earthers, and the Earth is round for scientists, but this just makes claims about flat Earthers and scientists and not about the Earth or Reality. We have said nothing about what the Earth really is.
- ↑ This does not mean I strictly condone or praise religion.
- ↑ What one would usually refer to as religion;
Christianity, 
Judaism, Paganism, 
Chinese Religion, etc., but could also refer to 
Politics, 
Tradition, etc.,
Comments
LordCompost - Please comment below if you have questions.
Amism - The era of the long essay has come to an end.
LordCompost - No one reads em; no one will probably read these either. However, the other benefit is that it makes it more succinct. That and less writing for me. Oh, and less chance of grammatical errors.
