Sentences with phrase «western nihilism»

In that case, we should be grateful that the world is offered the Buddhist alternative to Western nihilism.

Not exact matches

As Catholics become more and more concerned with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced with the «subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»

As Edwards puts it, «normal nihilism is just the Western intellectual's recognition and tolerance of her own historical and conceptual contingency.

If Heidegger was right — and he was — in saying that there was always a nihilistic core to the Western philosophical tradition, the withdrawal of Christianity leaves nothing but that core behind, for the gospel long ago stripped away both the deceits and the glories that had concealed it; and so philosophy becomes, almost by force of habit, explicit nihilism.

The solution, particularly in an increasingly Godless, postmodern, secular, ignorant and irrational Western «culture, is certainly NOT to throw more gas on the fire by joining the pagans in their ignorance and rebellion and nihilism.

Here is the revolution that can free us to criticize and resist the deepening darkness of secularism, atheism, nihilism, and materialism currently on the march throughout the western world.

The result is the combination of ethical subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.

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.

His account of the history of metaphysics is simply too uniform and comprehensive in its claims, and as a result it misrepresents or fails to account for other realities about the history of Western thought that can not intelligibly be treated as part of a larger history of nihilism.

In these days of rampant atheism and relativism among critical elites in Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkers.

In Nietzsche's vision, the nihilism in which Western civilization ends was to be at once a collapse into decadence and the fulfillment of an absolute freedom.

In 1979, when director Penelope Spheeris filmed The Decline of Western Civilization, she looked at punks and punk - rock nihilism.

This essay is timely in its discussion of the Coens and the Western because the Coens» latest film, True Grit — a more traditional Western — is opposite No Country for Old Men in terms of nihilism: True Grit helps preserve social order while No Country for Old Men deconstructs it.

The question of the title of the film therefore takes on a deeper resonance as one considers the tantalizing mélange produced by a marriage of noir, the western, and a jazz movement founded on unrest and violence, sold through a uniquely Japanese medium (animé, natch) that has been the vehicle for some of the most profound examinations of nihilism, violence, and romanticism (thinking especially of masterworks like Grave of the Fireflies and last year's Spirited Away) in the modern cinematic vocabulary.

Going out with a bang It's become customary to talk about Sam Peckinpah's classic as the tombstone of the Western genre, the moment when Hollywood's already - tired tradition of white - hat heroics was plunged irrevocably into nihilism, apocalypse and zero - sum catharsis.

Their black - humored deconstruction of the paternalistic WASP ideals, from which the Western and the American contemporary culture feed until today, undermines the audience expectations with relentless nihilism, caustic wit and famous actors...

Kim Kardashian West here provides us with an existential black hole that the transcendental nihilism of a Ray Brassier can only dream of evoking (in fact, I find it interesting that on pages 256 - 257, somewhere a little past the book's halfway point, we are provided with two pages that have no words or pictures at all, pages that are completely black: it is as if this is symbolic of the black hole at the center of Western society / civilization, with the selfies orbiting it like husks of dead galaxies).

Moreover, rational people must accept that even if America commits economic suicide and Western civilization descends into feckless nihilism, the global warming alarmists» predictions of doomsday will not change anything.