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"Barnes tackles ethical questions afresh, combining a direct, conversational tone with a mischievous knack for peering through conceptual keyholes." - @sonyasupposedly
"With Missing Axioms, Barnes thoughtfully investigates and articulates the feeling of being lost in a value-less abyss." - Kevin DeLand, @DeLandB4Time
Can we ever be nihilists? What is the difference between talk and action?
Missing Axioms explains how we value, outlining the impossibility of nihilism for human beings.
Through a series of essays covering Socrates, the Tokkōtai (Kamikaze), Christianity, Plato's cave and Sisyphus this book explores the topic of martyrdom and our status as inherently valuing beings.
Book Includes:
I – Explicit and Implicit Value
II – Beyond Nihilism
III – The Martyr
IV – The Passion of Socrates
V – A City without Laws
VI – Philosophy as Death
VII – Explicit Euphoria
VIII – Tokkōtai Temporality
IX – Devotional Space
X – Christ the Contemptible
XI – The Afterglow West
XII – Eternal Judgement
XIII – Caves, All the Way Up
XIV – The Cave of Sisyphus
XV – Force Majeure
XVI – On Suicide
XVII – Still Missing?
XVIII – Being Immortal
XVIIII – Mercy on Forever
XX – Calling Myself a “Philosopher”
An appendix of reflections on essays I-XV