Bernardo Kastrup Quote on Materialism and Unhappy People

„The mainstream metaphysics of materialism legitimizes the outrageous notion that unhappy people are simply malfunctioning biological robots.“

Bernardo KastrupBernardo Kastrup criticizes materialist metaphysics that views unhappy people as malfunctioning biological robots.
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Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer engineer known for his work on Analytical Idealism.

Kastrup criticizes the materialist view that reduces human suffering to mere defects.


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Quote by Bernardo Kastrup about materialism and unhappy people

Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer engineer specializing in the philosophy of mind and ontology. He holds doctorates in philosophy and computer engineering and serves as the director of the Essentia Foundation, which explores alternative theories to materialism. Kastrup advocates an idealistic view that reality is fundamentally consciousness, aiming to integrate insights from analytic philosophy and natural sciences with classical metaphysics.

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"By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic." Bernardo Kastrup
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"Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests." Bernardo Kastrup
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"materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions." Bernardo Kastrup
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