Derek Parfit tells me that, if the amount of evil in the world outweighed any actual or forthcoming good, as Hardy and Schopenhauer held, then he would prefer it to be the case that nothing matters. I have to admit that I don’t understand this preference.
Guy Kahane, ‘If Nothing Matters’, Noûs, forthcoming
There is no reason to fear nihilism. What we should fear is mistaken belief in nihilism.
Guy Kahane, ‘If Nothing Matters’, Noûs, forthcoming
When I am in pain, it is plain, as plain as anything is, that what I am experiencing is bad.
Guy Kahane, The Sovereignty of Suffering: Reflections on Pain’s Badness, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 2004, p. 2