What is the value of such obviously false and evil theories as those put forth by Parmenides, Zeno, Gorgias, and Pyrrho? Berkelely, Hume, Kant, and Hegel? Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida, and Fish? Does intellectually entertaining such metaphysical and epistemological fatuity and depravity expand the mind, strengthen the heart, and uplift the soul?
Just the opposite. Such "thinking" should be treated as the vacuity, disease, and blackness that it is. At most these warped and deviant ideas should be regarded as intellectual curiosities, parodies, or trolling. Seriously considering or debating such absurdities and deliberate lies harms human life immensely. Philosophical inquiry of this kind is like a really bad version of discussing: "If a tree falls in the woods, and no-one hears it, does it make a sound?" and "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" and "Can god make a rock so big even he can’t lift it?"
The history of human philosophy, alas, is mostly the history of debating, or at least babbling about, such remarkably errant and arrant nonsense. Seriously ruminating upon and investigating such transparent lies and fraud has caused mankind pain and suffering beyond measure.
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