Sentences with word «nihilism»

Nihilism is the belief that life is without purpose, meaning, or any intrinsic value. It suggests that everything is ultimately meaningless and rejects traditional morals, values, and social norms. Full definition
Akin's sense of helplessness borders on nihilism of the sort that makes vigilante action seem the most reliable recourse.
He has also proved once more the truth of what Europe's greatest historian of the Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, said at the onset of modern nihilism in the late nineteenth century: «It is for this reason that posterity needs to study the Greeks: if we ignore them we are simply accepting our own decline.»
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.
«I for one think it's great that Disney is leaning into nihilism as a social media content strategy,» one commenter writes
Timecrimes may not have anything really to say, it actually offers a pretty vicious brand of nihilism which would probably make Michael Haneke crack a grin, but it plays to its strength of solid, solid plotting.
Every atheist I've met insists on a logical distinction that separates atheism from nihilism, but no one has been able to effectively describe what this may be.
In the end he warns very sternly against Nihilism.
In a thematic introductory sentence, he states that «the claim to the exclusive status of being an owed victim constitutes one of the great moral nihilisms of this century.»
Whatever the case, though, and whatever Heidegger's other motives may have been, his determination to think through what he called «the history of being» — from its remotest origins to its uttermost ending — led him to produce what, for all its eccentricities and deficiencies, remains one of the profoundest meditations on modernity and on the nature and history of modern nihilism written in the last century.
Specifically, we must learn from Nietzsche about nihilism, about an historical reality defined purely by negations.
As for nihilism, it played a partially mediate role between relational behavior and dimensions of job performance except job dedication.
However, we have learned something about Victorianism in the last generation, and one of the things which we have learned is that in some respects the Victorians were even more nihilistic than we are ourselves, for they could be shocked by nihilism as we can not, and this very shock could lead them to daring strokes of the imagination.
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.»
Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.
In a circumstance of real social crisis, however, the irrationalists might be isolated and prevented from spreading the poison of debonair nihilism throughout the culture, as they do at present.
It was such a powerful, bold vision, so joyous in its escapism and so crushing in its ultimate nihilism, that it left my teenage mind in tatters.
Placher detects «two unhappy forms of relativism in Foucault and Rorty, influential critics of Enlightenment liberalism: first, «a tendency toward nihilism in which nothing can be defended as good or tine,» and second, «a kind of self - satisfaction in which one retreats to the way the world looks to us,... an intellectual ghetto.»
The members of the White Rose, like Maritain, saw the radical nihilism at the heart of the Nazi project.
Behind bars, such nihilism loses all its potency.
He worries that to do so may make Rorty more significant than he is, but he justifies the attention he pays to Rorty's cheerful nihilism not only because of Rorty's influence but because Rorty's is one response to the truth about life.
It's not a literal adaptation of that graphic novel but a thematic one, extraordinarily potent material that preaches the gospel that all is, in fact, lost — that the bad guy is a representation of not evil, but the quintessence of what happens when nihilism is embraced as a moral code of conduct.
Seeing it again, the movie, for all its violence and seeming nihilism, is a sustained argument for the personal significance of all people and the need for personal love.
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.
Part of the problem is that Americana is dead: if nihilism didn't kill it, irony finished the job.
The air of «therapeutic nihilism» that had settled over the obesity field is disappearing, claims Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology at Yale University and one of the leaders of the new wave.
Yes, Russian society is full of legal nihilism and lacks legal culture.
While nihilism partially mediated the relationship between task behavior and three dimensions of job performance except job dedication.
It is a pity that other authors, instead of immunizing their readers against nihilisim, inoculate them with their own cynicism, which is a defense mechanism or reaction formation, that they have built up against their own nihilism.
He did, however, suggest that now that we have reached the end of the metaphysical history of being, we can at least look back over that history and attempt a kind of Wiederholung, or «retrieval» of the past, which might allow us to understand nihilism, and perhaps even some day overcome it.
The logical conclusion of atheism is a sort of self destructive nihilism.
declares the headline of a 1970 review in the New York Times bemoaning «the cultural nihilism of Conceptual Art» in spite of its ability to keep «scoring points... [in] an art scene poisoned by the market mentality.»
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.
Great ones become touchstones for our self - understanding: Ivan Karamozov, the voice of our skeptical nihilism; Jay Gatsby, an emblem for our self - invention.
The cast is to die for, with Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro, Isabella Rosselini, Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo and they all put in solid performances; unfortunately it is very difficult to relate to any of the characters and the unrelenting nihilism combined with the fact that the film ends rather abruptly makes it difficult to feel any emotional involvement.
In «Helen's Exile,» written in 1948, he presents the notion of beauty as a solution to European nihilism, and in The Rebel, published in 1951, he develops the insights of his earlier essay.
Nothing is present here of what we have known as goal or direction, and perhaps only the advent of modern Western nihilism opened the West to the meaning and power of Buddhism.
The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.
Indeed, a former Marburg colleague who later vied with Heidegger for the position of «Nazi philosopher» denounced Heidegger's thought as «downright atheism» and «metaphysical nihilism
Postmodernism challenges modernism which can be said to have begun with seventeenth - century mechanism, petrified with eighteenth - century rationalism, nineteenth - century positivism and twentieth - century nihilism.
I vividly remember that on one occasion in the late 1970s when I was walking with Malcolm in the East Sussex countryside, he started talking about the emergence of aesthetic nihilism in modern life and literature, a phenomenon that he identified with the Bloomsbury writers, whom (except for Leonard Woolf) he particularly loathed.

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