Cat Nyarx

Only known sketch of Cat Nyarx, age 24.

**Felix Henry Inkman** (pen name **Cat Nyarx**) was a Burgamerian philosopher from Novoposagrad who is credited as the founder of contemporary philosophy in Rathnir. A somewhat enigmatic figure, Cat Nyarx authored only two works and is known mainly through posthumous accounts. Largely unappreciated in his prime, Nyarx’s political and philosophical thought to this day has an enormous influence on Plagatean intellectual circles through its popularization by his most prominent student, Koyama Ieyoshi.

## Biography

Not much is known about Nyarx's childhood, apart from the fact that both his parents were of the Neko race. He came to Sparwood in his early twenties, initially getting a government job in the newly established city of Novoposagrad. He spent his free time writing and teaching, which resulted in his only two works, the Socialist Nyanifesto and the Nyation.

During the UBSR’s fall, Novoposagrad was largely abandoned by its people. In the spring of 110 TE he left the city permanently in a boat headed for Plagatea, where one of his students had offered him accommodation. He never arrived, however, as he was lost at sea. A private funeral was held for him by the Koyama Clan in Ame.

His body was recovered on a beach in Plagos, from where he was cremated and transported to Ame, where his ashes remain to this day at a special sanctuary within the walls of the municipal university.

## Thought

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(The following pretty much corresponds to actual, real philosophy. It was my original intention to introduce it as a concept to this server within the framework of its lore. If you want to, feel free to challenge the ideas and propagate your own!) - inkmne

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### Philosophical Categorisation

Nyarx’s most influential idea is the meta-philosophical notion of categorisation. He divides the pursuit into three basic, distinct categories.

* Epistemology (regarding all matters connected to knowledge)
* Metaphysics (regarding all matters connected to being)
* Axiology (regarding all matters connected to the way one should live)

### Contrast Dialectics

Nyarx's most notable concept is his dialectical method based on two contrasting opposites clashing and producing an outcome that is a compromise between the two (in-game equivalent of real-life Hegelian Dialectics).

In The Nyation, he names the working classes as the antithesis to the exploitative gentry, citing a socialist world as the contrast’s synthesis.

### Unbelief

Nyarx argued, that religious suffering is the expression of real suffering and a protest against it at the same time. In his mind, the people couldn’t be truly happy while under the influence of religion, which polluted their minds with dogmatic, set-in-stone ideas about the world. To be free, to Nyarx, is to enter a state he calls infidelitas, where one rids oneself of all religious dogma and lives a free life based around their own moral compass.

### Socialism

Nyarx was a prominent supporter of socialism, citing the capitalist system as ‘a religion based around money and the disgusting practice of using another being’. In the Socialist Nyanifesto, he introduces the concepts of class struggle, the people’s revolution and worker solidarity.