>>69295Amorality is not a philosophy?
It absolutely is.
Protagoras: morality is a matter of personal preference
Desade: maximizing personal pleasure and minimizing personal pain is the ultimate good which all other goods are mere proxies for, it is also what shapes everything else about us, our perceptions, our fantasies, our beliefs, our values, our loyalties, etc.
Stirner: the only thing that us resl is the physical, which the ideal is the product of and subservient to, ownership is only a matter of possession, the ability to posses something and retain that possession, if I can take it from you, it is mine for as long as I can keep it.
Hobbes: civilization is the product of leaders using the threat of pain and misery via violence to enforce conformity
Neitzsche: morality is a tool of control that allows leaders to control others even when they cannot threaten them with violence
Machiavelli: people can be reliably controlled through the manipulation of pleasure and pain, joy and misery, desire and aversion, love and fear, etc.
Rand: even the most selfless possible act, such as someone giving their lives to improve the life of a stranger who would never know their sacrifice, is at its core a selfish act as it is motivated by the pleasure the one making the sacrifice experiences from helping their benefactor. These pleasurable feelings are in fact our motivation to do anything.
Philosophy is the observation and elucidation of the obvious.
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