Sentences with phrase «into nihilism»

However, in this situation because marital difficulty preceded the separation; once the reality of the past problems (and potentially new ones depending on how long the separation was) resurface, it can jolt the couple into nihilism about the relationship.

I think it's easy in such a media - saturated society to give into nihilism and feel like everything is author-less, rights - free, and up for grabs.

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.

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

«I for one think it's great that Disney is leaning into nihilism as a social media content strategy,» one commenter writes

Where beliefs are entirely relative they risk slipping — first into contradiction, then into nihilism.

But it is well armored against that extreme of relativization that falls over into nihilism, for it is founded on faith in God who is truth: We may not know what this truth is; we may only get glimpses of it here and there; but, in that faith, we can never give up the notion of truth.

Our government, operating properly is the best, but we are clearly allowing significant departure into nihilism.

Thus the moral life receives from agape that which is essential to its integrity, the transcendant dimension in which the limits of our ethical justification can be confessed without our falling into nihilism and despair.

We still desperately need a way of welcoming diversity that does not deteriorate into nihilism, and a sober recognition that neither religious nor secular movements are good or bad as such.

I think what's important is not so much a wariness of «spiritual but not religious» rather taking care not to fall into nihilism.

I mean I respect your right to reject his version of events and I understand cynicism but doesn't that mindset extrapolate into nihilism?

Not exact matches

This striking transformation of life into lifestyle, the way in which the tools, garments, and attitudes specific to particular times and places become commodities to be marketed to anonymous and rootless consumers: they are the natural (if also banal) expressions of our normal nihilism.»

Nor can it survive under a hostile polity contemptuous of truth, justice, law, and beauty: It will fall into lassitude and nihilism unless it maintains its longing for the transcendent, its upward thrust into the future, and the highest aspirations of the human heart.

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.

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

Although it has been called perhaps the most radical «nihilism» that has ever existed, Madhyamika does away with both affirmation and negation; when both modes of action have been quieted, the spirit enters into perfect stillness.

Privileging ethnic survival makes sense only when one understands that the survival of the Jewish people is not self - justifying: As a genuine task for Jews, survival requires a transcendent purpose and reason for existence, and a claim that without ethnic survival, Jews will sink into individual or collective nihilism.

I dare to believe that what I take to be the more fundamental analyses of the modern will prevail, and that the energies of the twenty - first century will go into reconstruction on new lines, rather than pressing toward the nihilism that is the final outcome of the modern.

After all, if he could show nihilism to be a destiny woven into the very fabric of the West by a long history of intellectual error, as Heidegger came to believe it was, then perhaps he could convince himself and others that he was not so much a moral idiot as a victim of fate.

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.

Go back into your Atheistic bubble world & spare us all your miserable creed of No Hope, Despair & Nihilism!!

Must we either return to traditional religious values and authority, or slide into moral relativism and nihilism?

by Walter Chaw In exactly the same way they distilled the essence of Cormac McCarthy into an overwhelming, oppressive, animal nihilism in No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen have distilled the folksy Americana of Charles Portis into their adaptation of his True Grit.

It's a statement that the world is hurtling towards the sixties, dumb as it is to say, and then the seventies, and then into the aughts, when nihilism and the equation of morality with a coin flip rules the day.

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.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

The elliptical breakdowns and violence that seep into the picture create a sense of nihilism that epitomizes its protagonist's solipsistic delusion.

A few years ago, Gerhard Richter made a similar attempt, adding a daub of paint to his photographs and allowing his collectors to bring the joy of German nihilism into their homes at a fraction of the price they thought possible.

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«From the beginning we looked upon the term [Zero] not as an expression of nihilism — or as a dada - like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as the count - down when rockets take off — ZERO is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.»

This conclusion dovetailed perfectly with thinking happening elsewhere in continental philosophy and ultimately the two schools of thought merged into a perfect storm of nihilism that validated and sustained this group of artists.

This following little adverbial phrase of yours: «glaringly displays the increasingly human - shaped face of Earth,» is a tiny window into your mind, an innocently written phrase that suddenly makes your otherwise hidden nihilism * glaringly * clear.

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.