Sentences with phrase «even nihilism»

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.

This, then, is the great religious obsession spun into all of Kristol's political writing: the belief that secular liberalism breeds a valueless individualism that necessarily progresses toward moral disorder and even nihilism.

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Dewall is strangely attuned to the terms and images that have characterized Det. Rustin Cohle, in all his nihilism and shadiness — extending even to a punning gloss on that nickname, a nickname that Dewall can not know.

Even Nietzsche with his «nihilism» eventually went insane following his athiestic ideas to their natural conclusion.

«Nihilism» is simply a name for post-Christian sensibility and conviction (and not even an especially opprobrious one).

Heck, even Kaufmann is nailing you to a wall with his commentary on Nietzsche's critique — BOTH as a product of nihilism AND a critic of nihilism.

The ONLY thing you've been talking about here is nihilism, so I'm not even sure why you're bringing him up.

If pure modernity means the victory of contract and consent in every nook and crannny of human existence, then it's not quite nihilism or even the triumph of the liberated will.

When he looks at the literary situation of sixty years ago, I think Gioia is observing the fading light of the modern tradition, which, even in its nihilism and atheism, remained deeply religious — where faith is a necessity not only for prayer but also for painting.

Christian Dietrich Grabbe, in 1829, produced Don Juan und Faust, a vast, seething swamp of large ideas, exaggerated passions, incoherent action, crushing monologues, deranged lyricism, and adolescent moral nihilism, which is somehow made even more unbearable by its numerous moments of poetic brilliance.

Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, said: «Once you've found a word or an image that connects atrocity with the rest of human experience, even in the most fragile or attenuated way, you've turned away from nihilism.»

To this day, Cobb is the only process theologian who is even open to the challenge of radical relativism and nihilism.

To give such monumentality to such unyielding hopelessness is to suggest — perhaps even to demand — that nihilism is the way and the truth and the life.

It is enough to acknowledge that the possibility of nihilism is indeed part of the entire history of metaphysics, even while insisting that countless ways of avoiding nihilism (even thoroughly metaphysical ways) have also opened up within that history.

That's great news if you still care about the Hall of Fame, but even those with a passion for it are starting to see that slip for myriad reasons, reasons that have already caused others to subscribe to Cooperstown nihilism.

i respect your love of the club, even if it's a nihilistic manner (if you» r that expert in english you must understand what nihilism means) and a sadic one, frankly, But you can not deny that the stupid protest of the so called w.o.b last year made the atmosphere around the club toxic and are partly responsible of thedropout of the Champions league

The interpretation that Theos layered on their data went even further, suggesting that atheists were to blame for the spread of «Intelligent Design» and Creationism because they associate evolution with nihilism and the view that there is «no purpose» in life.

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

Even though Out of the Blue was released in 1980, it is ripe and raw with a certain flavour of»70s nihilism.

There has always been an air of amused nihilism in even his most effective films, but his latest bunch have been so poorly plotted, so insincerely characterized, and so philosophically hollow that the nihilism has taken control.

Actually, it is the manic pacing of the comedy that bothered me, breathlessly frenetic to a fault, as if Russell couldn't stop for even a moment or his whole house of cards would fall apart into nothingness, which I argue would be appropriate for a movie that uses nihilism as a plot device.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is an exercise in comic nihilism that needs to prompt the audience to laugh, and, if there were indeed a laugh track accompanying the movie, at least someone would be laughing — even if only on a recording.

Camus also opposed Nihilism, but did say that the «human condition» is mortality, and that the world lacks external meaning, even though we crave it.

The same is true for atheists - now is not the time to discuss nihilism, instead focus on the fact that the family member is ok now even though they are not with you.

Alzheimer de Koonings denuded and bleached, they make one realize that his nihilism leaves forebears in the dust: Thinking of Rauschenberg as a formal and perhaps attitudinal forebear, Wool is too deskilled even to erase — smudge being his preferred MO..

In a landscape where post-apocalyptic movies are debuting weekly, nihilism has made a strong and sturdy comeback, with cynicism present even in jaded seven - year - olds.

I realized then that Reinhardt had come out of the European geometric tradition, and that the black paintings to which his constructivist trajectory had led were not manifestations of Dadaist nihilism or even Abstract Expressionist anxiety, but the logical conclusion of that purist tradition.

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.

The attachment to near - term pleasures can even turn into a form of climate nihilism, a philosophical rejection of ethics in favor of sensuous pleasure über alles.

You can choose to lead the three protagonists through gripping story missions, explore a jam - packed world filled with a welcome sense of joyous nihilism, or even carry out elaborate heists with a little help from your friends in the game's wild multiplayer mode.