Sentences with phrase «nihilism so»

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

With respect to the nihilism so enthusiastically embraced by today's herd of independent minds, one might take it more seriously if more of them leaped over the edge.

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.»

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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.

Nihilism is the result of having so many compact discs from which to choose that, no matter which ones we choose, we are dissatisfied because we can not be sure we have chosen what we really wanted.

(The so - called nihilism of Joel and Ethan Coen might be understood as a related phenomenon.)

God has clearly chosen to work in ways not immediately obvious to us, and we can only assume that He has done so in order that He might be glorified while the vestiges of racism and exclusion, the failed attempts at revitalization, and the nihilism induced by violence might be put to shame.

More important, the rebellious instinct which elsewhere expresses itself so often in sour withdrawal, cynical nihilism and disruption is here more often than not both affirmative and constructive, thanks in considerable measure to the chaplain's influence.»

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

Christianity is the midwife of nihilism, not because it is itself nihilistic, but because it is too powerful in its embrace of the world and all of the world's mystery and beauty; and so to reject Christianity now is, of necessity, to reject everything except the barren anonymity of spontaneous subjectivity.

Christianity, for its part, is not so much a new thing as a prolonged episode within the greater history of nihilism, notable chiefly for having brought part of this history's logic to its consummation by having invented the metaphysical God, the form of all forms, who grounds all of being in himself as absolute efficient cause, and who personifies that cause as total power and will.

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.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

It is sometimes suggested that the future of society in the West» and so, perhaps, the world» is open to three «options»: Christianity, Islam, and a consumerism so devoid of transcendent values as to be, inevitably, nothing but a pervasive and pitiless nihilism.

@Robert I do so love it when religionists conflate atheism with nihilism, communism, satanism, social darwinism, defeatism, etc. ad nauseum.

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

So where were we... I suppose I am mixing in nihilism with atheism, but frankly I see little difference insofar as we all get one s.hot at this life and we're d.ead, as you similarly put it.

nihilism: compassion doesn't really exist evolutionary naturalism: compassion is a foil for survival goals religion: compassion serves a transcendent reality (in so far as it reflects that reality) Christianity (in particular): compassion is the most powerful force in history, and reveals God's eternal heart

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

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

That world can be understood as a new apocalyptic world, one which becomes manifestly apocalyptic in the French Revolution and German Idealism, and then one realizing truly universal expressions in Marxism and in that uniquely modern or postmodern nihilism which was so decisively inaugurated by Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God.

So it is that modernity culminates in an historically inevitable and eschatologically ultimate nihilism, that nihilism which Nietzsche enacts most profoundly, but this very nihilism necessarily calls forth its reversal and transcendence in an absolute apocalypse.

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.

Every attempt to escape from mythology leads either to nihilism or to the question whether the invisible has in fact become visible, and if so, where?

The contemporary Christian who bets that God is dead must do so with a full realization that he may very well be embracing a life - destroying nihilism; or, worse yet, he may simply be submitting to the darker currents of our history, passively allowing himself to be the victim of an all too human horror.

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.

Like Nietzsche, Heidegger traced the philosophical origins of nihilism back to ancient Athens; but unlike Nietzsche, he did so — or so he believed — without rancor, any impulse to pass judgment, or any lingering trace of metaphysical thinking.

But he rarely demonstrated any very keen awareness of the ways in which, for instance, Plato's understanding of the Form of the Good, or certain Christian understandings of the analogy between transcendent and created being (and so on), open up paths that certainly can not terminate in nihilism.

Instead of preserving suspense through nihilism (in which God is either nonexistent or malign) or through Manichaenism (in which dark and light are equally matched and equally likely to prevail), the novelist gives us a God too powerful and too aloof to bother with anything so interventionist as the Incarnation.

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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 post-Powellite far right are a lot more conflicted of course - having to argue that we destroyed our society 70 years ago («national suicide» said Powell: very conflicted, pretty resentful, but I am sure he was wrong, and in 2011 that view and vision offers us nothing except a tragic nihilism) and so can't be proud of the society we have become.

However, when we examine 2 of his latest films (white ribbon and cache), it seems to me what stands out is his ability to use the concept of mystery and show the viewer that in cinema, as in life, there are things beyond our understanding, and nihilism isn't so bad if you can accept that.

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.»

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.

Nihilism and formless chaos are so Old Europe, n'est - ce pas?

It's a mystery film that doesn't solve the mystery, a Luddite film undermined by biological frailty; and it boasts a resolution so ambivalent that it surpasses spirituality to root itself in cold, hard 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.

The besieged family never wins and is never in danger of winning, and so we're pummeled with unearned nihilism.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

We tumble from one continual social crisis to the next in a fog of capitalist nihilism, so to think that a Britain operating within its own private bureaucracies is to isolate from the political traumas surrounding us at a global scale is a grossly naive and selfish misconception.

So called nihilism.

That is why America owes denier William Grey and Kyoto - fighter George Bush so many kudos for standing tall against the nihilism of the Left's Doomsday Global Warming Machine when it was the most hard for anyone to do that.

In the examination of the mediating role that nihilism played between task behavior and job dedication, relational behavior and job dedication, the results showed that nihilism was not significantly related to job dedication, so we need to do Sobel test.