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Philosophy and ethics investigations

Philosophy and ethics investigations on Nietzsche, existentialism, moral responsibility, political thought, secular life and human behavior.

About this collection

These investigations treat philosophy as an argument to reconstruct and test, not a collection of names or positions to summarize. They move between primary texts, current reference works and contemporary applications while keeping interpretation separate from historical fact. Recurring questions include how conflict is shaped by institutions, whether meaning requires a cosmic foundation, how responsibility survives luck, and where moral theories lose sight of the people affected by them.

The selected path begins with close readings of Nietzsche and modern pessimism, then broadens into moral luck, empathy, secular ethics, political memory and philosophical fiction. Several pieces cross into psychology, history or AI because the archive groups them by the question being examined rather than by a strict academic department. Sources establish what a thinker or institution claimed; the conclusions remain editorial judgments open to correction and disagreement.

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  1. The second Eris A critical reading of Nietzsche’s Homer’s Contest: disciplined rivalry, monopoly, excellence, hierarchy, cruelty, and the people left outside the arena.
  2. The antler and the abyss An evidence-led investigation of “Existential Elk Theory,” Zapffe’s antler metaphor, antinatalism, existentialism, and the philosophy of meaning.
  3. Paradise Lost After God Milton's Paradise Lost read through atheism, determinism, Nietzsche, and Camus: freedom, rebellion, foreknowledge, and exile after Eden.
  4. Bernard Williams, integrity, and moral luck A concise map of Bernard Williams's critique of systematic moral theory, his emphasis on integrity, and the problem of moral luck.
  5. Beyond “Suicidal Empathy” A philosophy- and evidence-guided examination of empathy, compassion, justice, dignity, individual responsibility, and accountable public policy.

All investigations

  1. The second Eris
  2. The antler and the abyss
  3. Beyond “Suicidal Empathy”
  4. The SCARF model: social threat, reward, and self-repair
  5. Umanism secular si ateism: de ce nu sunt acelasi lucru
  6. Scoala politica: filosofie, ideologie, canon universitar si distorsionarea Holocaustului
  7. Dupa Revolutie: responsabilitate, memorie si ascensiunea FSN
  8. Nietzsche, music, and recurrence
  9. LLM evolution through a phenomenological lens
  10. Paradise Lost After God
  11. Bernard Williams, integrity, and moral luck

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