#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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The Indestructibility of Value
Aristotle was an eternalist so he thought you know there was kind of no beginning and no end to time. That seems to lend itself to believing in a strong form of planetude which collapses possibilities with its realizations. For every kind of value we can think of we must be able to point to a time X where it happened or will happen but this is very hard for us to do because the past has already been rediscovered. It means that inquiry is just rediscovery or remembering the past in the right way and also ethical action is just kind of returning to previous maxima of like goodness.
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