Sentences with phrase «western humanity as a whole»

What is clear is that he saw his philosophical genealogy of nihilism as also an account of how Western humanity as a whole has arrived at an essentially nihilistic way of living on the earth.

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Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

These monumental pictures with titles such as «ARRESTED», «ATTACKED STRAIGHT», «BOMB», «LOVER», «MISSING», «SUICIDE», take their names from newspaper posters and as a whole, portray the sorrow and humanity of western city life.