Idea Robot

The will to live is irrational, according to Arthur Schopenhauer. Will itself has no knowledge. It is, amongst other things, a primal, unconscious desire to survive & multiply, not an essence of logic. With no ultimate goal, all are in an endless state of unfulfillment and agony.

No, Jews died more than Christians during the Holocaust. That table is about registered prisoners, and it's incomplete because most Jews were transported straight to gas chambers never registered in camp death books. The table does not represent the entire death toll of Auschwitz

I looked into it and it seems fabricated, not anything to take seriously. Aside from no evidence of validity, the "The Ten Wise Jews" text is not even the earliest version of that "ten jews" narrative. The earliest version was Christian, not Jewish. Both are religious polemics.

Is history written by the victors? How can we know who to trust? This assumes historians relied on one "truth-teller" instead of cross-referencing sources, including the losers. Victors almost always release propaganda, but that in and of itself is part of history, not rewriting.

Winston Churchill did mention and document the Holocaust, just not explicitly the English word "Holocaust" because it wasn't popular then. Eisenhower wrote a note to George C. Marshall about his visit to the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Your post shows a myth for all three people.

A eudaemonist can reject Susan Wolf's definition of a "Moral Saint". In Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, maximized self-sacrifice ≠ maximized morality. A person lacking self-care lacks phronesis, making Wolf's model un-virtuous. Virtue is about finding the "golden mean".

Even if eudaimonia is a mind-independent state, defining morality through it is inherently self-interested. This also assumes a universal blueprint for what a "good" human life looks like. Is a perfectly flourishing life equal to a perfectly moral life? Susan Wolf wrote about it.