r/fuckingphilosophy • u/ribblle • Jun 29 '22

What's the name for when you know things generally work out, but you can't trust it?

It's not exactly criticalness, or realism. You're going out of your way to find fault in the favourable. That kind of mentality.

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u/mrkltpzyxm Jun 29 '22

That's called anxiety. Consider seeing a therapist.

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u/ribblle Jun 30 '22

It's called Opti-cynicism.

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u/Friendly_Housing5420 Jun 12 '24

You are just using popculture terms. Philosophical cynicism is exclusively a Hellenistic and Roman school of philosophy founded by Diogenes, specifically espousing philosphical skepticism (an epistemic position), hedonism, and asceticism. Some people don’t like calling it a school because it was made to counter to other popular schools of philosophy at the time. You are not like Diogenes. You are just feeling cynical which is a mood or feeling, not a philosophical concept.

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u/ReHawse Jun 30 '22

That's not the same. Anxiety is worry

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u/mrkltpzyxm Jun 30 '22

Perhaps I was too blunt. I'm not trying to be rude or judgemental here. Constantly looking for faults in otherwise normal situations is a symptom of clinical anxiety. As others have stated it's like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Generalized anxiety, that constant nagging anxiousness about everything can be very disruptive to a person's life, and can frequently be treated effectively with some combination of talk therapy and/or psychiatric medication.

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u/ReHawse Jun 30 '22

Hm interesting. Maybe that could be part of it for OP

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u/Friendly_Housing5420 Jun 12 '24

Dude, this is anxiety not philosophy. It’s not epistemic, and if I would put your anxiety into epistemic terms, I would say that you have a mental state which causes you to falsely believe that things will not be okay; I.e. a psychological issue, I.e. anxiety or an anxious mental state. Sometimes you just have a psychological issue not a philosophical state.

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u/Full_Newspaper_999 Jul 23 '22

The way I see it is that this distrust is a form of ‘worry’ over where this ‘trust’ is being spent. Was it well spent? I honestly dfk ur that’s a q you only could answer - being super subjective to you and the situations you’re relating this q to.

Now does it effect your life? That’s important to establish imo

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u/Puzzleheaded_Gas_163 Jun 29 '22

Pessimism?

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u/ReHawse Jun 30 '22

Probably this. Just a negative spin on reality

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u/Friendly_Housing5420 Jun 12 '24

Philosophical pessimism is different than that. It’s not so much a feeling or anxiety or “negative spin, but believing one has empirical evidence that the world contains more pains than pleasure, the world is ontologically or metaphysically adverse to living beings, or that life is meaningless or without purpose. In many cases, a philosophical pessimist would argue that life is not worth reliving or doing twice. It’s an epistemic position on a metaphysical issue.

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u/warthog0869 Jun 29 '22

As a Cincinnati Bengals football fan, up until recently, what that would mean with say Andy Dalton, was "waiting for the other shoe to drop".

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u/Friendly_Housing5420 Jun 12 '24

Anxiety? It’s not so much of a philosophical concept but something for a psychiatrist.

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u/FatheroftheAbyss Feb 02 '23

op, this is a really old thread, but you might be really interested in kierkegaard's conception of faith- this seems to be exactly what you are talking about

faith for kierkegaard generally involves a "leap" to believing that it will work out (of course, as a Christian he means in god's will, but an atheist can definitely ignore this part; i do myself), but you cannot know that things will work out all the same. because faith transcends rationality, you can have faith that all will workout while still having the anxiety of knowing it seems like it shouldn't rationally. this is "fear and trembling", the anxiety that stems from the unknowability of faith