Sentences with phrase «nietzschean nihilist»

What I saw unfold was almost enough to turn this Director of Happiness into a nihilist.

The liberal nihilists are, of course, right that our lives are contingent, but their account of contingency is unintelligible.

Like one of Dostoevsky's bored nihilists, he lived for intense experiences and weird beliefs to fill the void in his soul.

The poet is seen as confused, scared, overcomplicated, hidden behind his «wit,» and, finally, a nihilist altogether — a man who knows his religious faith «doesn't stand up to scrutiny,» and so writes «these screwed - up sonnets.»

To be a normal nihilist is just to acknowledge that, however fervent and essential one's commitment to a particular set of values, that's all one has: a commitment to a particular set of values.»

So — my only question to you Biff — is why are you reading and commenting on a religious article on the Belief blog — if you are an atheist and nihilist?

Some might say this is what materialism gets you, duh; but Hobbes was as little a nihilist as we restless Americans who long for full experiences of happiness but also long for full experiences of individuality.

Just because he's not portrayed as a bitter nihilist does not automatically make him a good example of atheists....

(Of Bloom, Percy remarks, «I suspect he is a nihilist.»)

Yet while this uxorious little man consents to unsheathe himself with the rest of the audience, there is one act when he can not bring himself to commit: he will not abandon the valuables — his wallet and keys and watch — which Bertha and the other sexual nihilists are taunting him to surrender.

Positively, his aim is to uphold the imperiled human verities against the nihilist conviction that life is gibberish.

I am neither a nihilist nor an atheist.

All too often higher education today deems its task to be the production of epistemological agnostics and moral nihilists.

If I happened to be fortunate to have all of my needs provided for and if it made no difference at all to me whether I did something to help someone with whom I am not associated, I might very well as a nihilist choose to do something good for others simply because why not?

Atheists and nihilists are great at dismissing the validity of evidence that might challenge their views.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

The opportunists consistently and willfully ignore the anti-black criminals and nihilists.

(They certainly were not nihilist nor even amoral, and not relativist nor morally indifferent.)

These nihilists tried to provoke police violence with gunfire and by hurling Molotov cocktails and bottles of urine.

Well that's wrong, I think you have us confused with nihilists, but I can assure you I have many beliefs, they just happen to fall into the «real» category.

Neither they nor their Republican nihilist counterparts with whom they share a disdain for even the most rational of compromises didn't succeed in creating a TOTAL train wreck.

Few scholars in our time have shed more light on the fateful turn toward nihilist jurisprudence, or pondered more deeply what might be done about it.

Unlike nihilists and positivists, we will look for answers to ultimate questions.

And looking back on this thread, no where did Honey Badger say he was a nihilist either.

2) No where did you quote me as saying that I was a nihilist, yet you attributed that to me in the very quote I provided earlier.

You're just reasserting over and over that to be logically consistent I must be a nihilist without actually justifying that statement.

I have yet to see someone on this thread say they hold a nihilist view.

Not all atheists believe in evolution, nor are they all naturalists, humanists, materialists, nihilists, communists etc..

A Nihilist is someone who believes in nothing.

One expects such views from nihilists, not believing Christians.

It is good to be reminded that secular men and women are not always cheerful nihilists who do unspeakably horrid things, but sometimes, and most appropriately, angst - ridden and troubled.

Only a nihilist claims to believe in nothing.

People who don't believe in Santa are not nihilists, same for any deity.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

He is no nihilist.

This does not mean we have to become nihilists.

Put differently, Barth anticipated much of the postmodern critique of Enlightenment reason while vigorously opposing the nihilist presumption that there is no ground of truth.

In a recent MEMRI daily brief, Yigal, taking exception to one of President Trump's bombastic characterizations of terrorists, wrote that «the jihadis who perpetrate these horrific crimes are neither losers nor nihilists....

The limitation of this argument, however, is that it can never transcend its constructivist and utilitarian (not to say nihilist) premises.

Yet Romanticism's sharp antithesis of the individual's creative self - fashioning on the one hand and political, social, and religious norms on the other also sowed the seeds for variously existentialist, hedonistic, and nihilist programs that bear much responsibility for the devastations wrought throughout the twentieth century and into our present.

Now, not many atheists are nihilists, of course, but that simply shows that they are inconsistent in following their beliefs to their logical end.

If all that Europe can say in condemning the despicable murders of Charlie Hebdo's cartoonists and editors is «We are all Charlie Hebdo,» then what Europe is saying is, in effect, «We are all nihilists.»

The really difficult task when faced with an emergent «sacred» such as began to appear in the wake of 9/11 is to refuse to be fascinated and instead to tend to the wounded, to search for and apprehend nihilist criminals, yet not to aggrandize them and their purely negative accomplishments in a way that gives succour to others who might imitate them.

These ghostly figures — religious fanatics on the one hand, and spiritual ethical nihilists, on the other — haunt our discussions of religious freedom.

I want to hang out with other humanitarians or philosophers or existentialists or nihilists and enjoy life and get advice on how I could make enough money to go into space and orbit around the Earth for a little while.

Does this turn him into a Nietzschean nihilist of some kind?

Atheists can be humanists, naturalists, existentialists, nihilists..

The American religious empiricist so understood could accept what these postmodern philosophers and theologians have elucidated without dismissing them as nihilists; but these postmodernists, in turn, also are close enough to the American religious empiricist to hear their critique of postmodern anti-realism and subjectivism.16

For me, who started out my life as an evolutionary, nihilist, atheist... It is very good news that there is a God, He is good, He loves me, I am not alone, He will never leave me or forsake me, He loves being with me, I'm can be more myself with Him than without Him, He isn't afraid of my doubts, I'm free to question anything, I'm safe, death is not the end, the earth will be restored, we will see righteous government, there will be an end to war, I will get to be a part of that restoration, I am a part of it now, all I do now that is of the kingdom shall remain, I will see the full fruit of that labor in the world to come... Wow.

(Of course, one can not consistently be a subjectivist, a relativist, an emotivist, and a nihilist; but it is also fashionable today to be unconcerned about logical consistency in matters of religion and morality.)