Absurdism
The confrontation between the demand for meaning and a universe that supplies none.
What it commits you to
Camus treats the absurd as the tension between wanting a just world and inhabiting one indifferent to justice, and argues for revolt rather than suicide or hope. Its value for a philosophy of technology is that it refuses both the technological solution and the nostalgic one. What it offers instead is a sustained clarity about what any engineering programme is actually doing.
Which realms lean on this
Philosophy carries the arguments the other four kinds are downstream of — what an agent is, what a person owes, what a rule is for.
philosophy · 8 realms — The Care Weft, The Contractual Court, The Existential Wilds, The Kantian Citadel, The Longview Foundry, The Middle Kingdom, The Pragmatic Wharf, The Sangha Terraces.
See also
Existentialism
philosophyThe view that existence precedes essence and that nobody is exempt from responsibility.
Authenticity
philosophyActing in accordance with what one has actually accepted rather than what one ought to.
Amor fati
ethicsLove of fate: to treat what happens as material to work with rather than to resist.
Structural transition
alignmentA change in the structure of society, economy or state that recurs across many very different causes.