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Missing Axioms: Philosophy for Disorientation

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Missing Axioms: Philosophy for Disorientation

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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.

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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



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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


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