Sentences with phrase «nihilists of»

The nihilists of 1880 were a set of mystics, dreamers, the routineers of universal happiness.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

Does this turn him into a Nietzschean nihilist of some kind?

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What I saw unfold was almost enough to turn this Director of Happiness into a nihilist.

The liberal nihilists are, of course, right that our lives are contingent, but their account of contingency is unintelligible.

Like one of Dostoevsky's bored nihilists, he lived for intense experiences and weird beliefs to fill the void in his soul.

To be a normal nihilist is just to acknowledge that, however fervent and essential one's commitment to a particular set of values, that's all one has: a commitment to a particular set of values.»

Some might say this is what materialism gets you, duh; but Hobbes was as little a nihilist as we restless Americans who long for full experiences of happiness but also long for full experiences of individuality.

Just because he's not portrayed as a bitter nihilist does not automatically make him a good example of atheists....

(Of Bloom, Percy remarks, «I suspect he is a nihilist.»)

Yet while this uxorious little man consents to unsheathe himself with the rest of the audience, there is one act when he can not bring himself to commit: he will not abandon the valuables — his wallet and keys and watch — which Bertha and the other sexual nihilists are taunting him to surrender.

All too often higher education today deems its task to be the production of epistemological agnostics and moral nihilists.

If I happened to be fortunate to have all of my needs provided for and if it made no difference at all to me whether I did something to help someone with whom I am not associated, I might very well as a nihilist choose to do something good for others simply because why not?

Atheists and nihilists are great at dismissing the validity of evidence that might challenge their views.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

These nihilists tried to provoke police violence with gunfire and by hurling Molotov cocktails and bottles of urine.

Neither they nor their Republican nihilist counterparts with whom they share a disdain for even the most rational of compromises didn't succeed in creating a TOTAL train wreck.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

Put differently, Barth anticipated much of the postmodern critique of Enlightenment reason while vigorously opposing the nihilist presumption that there is no ground of truth.

In a recent MEMRI daily brief, Yigal, taking exception to one of President Trump's bombastic characterizations of terrorists, wrote that «the jihadis who perpetrate these horrific crimes are neither losers nor nihilists....

The limitation of this argument, however, is that it can never transcend its constructivist and utilitarian (not to say nihilist) premises.

Yet Romanticism's sharp antithesis of the individual's creative self - fashioning on the one hand and political, social, and religious norms on the other also sowed the seeds for variously existentialist, hedonistic, and nihilist programs that bear much responsibility for the devastations wrought throughout the twentieth century and into our present.

Now, not many atheists are nihilists, of course, but that simply shows that they are inconsistent in following their beliefs to their logical end.

If all that Europe can say in condemning the despicable murders of Charlie Hebdo's cartoonists and editors is «We are all Charlie Hebdo,» then what Europe is saying is, in effect, «We are all nihilists.»

The really difficult task when faced with an emergent «sacred» such as began to appear in the wake of 9/11 is to refuse to be fascinated and instead to tend to the wounded, to search for and apprehend nihilist criminals, yet not to aggrandize them and their purely negative accomplishments in a way that gives succour to others who might imitate them.

These ghostly figures — religious fanatics on the one hand, and spiritual ethical nihilists, on the other — haunt our discussions of religious freedom.

The American religious empiricist so understood could accept what these postmodern philosophers and theologians have elucidated without dismissing them as nihilists; but these postmodernists, in turn, also are close enough to the American religious empiricist to hear their critique of postmodern anti-realism and subjectivism.16

For me, who started out my life as an evolutionary, nihilist, atheist... It is very good news that there is a God, He is good, He loves me, I am not alone, He will never leave me or forsake me, He loves being with me, I'm can be more myself with Him than without Him, He isn't afraid of my doubts, I'm free to question anything, I'm safe, death is not the end, the earth will be restored, we will see righteous government, there will be an end to war, I will get to be a part of that restoration, I am a part of it now, all I do now that is of the kingdom shall remain, I will see the full fruit of that labor in the world to come... Wow.

(Of course, one can not consistently be a subjectivist, a relativist, an emotivist, and a nihilist; but it is also fashionable today to be unconcerned about logical consistency in matters of religion and moralityOf course, one can not consistently be a subjectivist, a relativist, an emotivist, and a nihilist; but it is also fashionable today to be unconcerned about logical consistency in matters of religion and moralityof religion and morality.)

The relativist who acts only on his own desires can easily be exposed as a «nihilist» or «anarchist» or «dangerous deviant» (or, assuming him to be a benign influence on the established order of things, a mere eccentric).

Sorry bud, unless you are a nihilist, you are a person of faith.

That might be boring, that might be pat, that might be too optimistic for our era of cynics and nihilists.

Demagogues of all stripes will not shy away from nihilist adventurism even at the price of self - destruction in order to rouse the mob to upend the status quo, and establish a new order.

A nihilist liberal politics of arbitrary freedom must be replaced with one of collective morality.

that is an anti-political and somewhat nihilist piece of political rhetoric.

For him, the important test is whether the opponents are «irreconcilables» who fight for ideological reasons or are driven by nihilist instincts, or whether they fight because they have some kind of grievance that can potentially be addressed.

It'd be hard to make an argument that «the Stakes» is anything more than a nihilist Hail Mary — the Osama Now wing of the Democratic party being hard to find or at least very, very sneaky.

I'm not only an agnostic, I'm also a moral nihilist, a heavy believer of Murphy's Laws (whatever is the worst thing that could happen, will), and those who know me, consider me a geeky punk nerd.

Too bad that the narrative is such a conventional melodrama in depicting the fight of the little man, the humanist Hoffman, against the military machine, represented by the cynical and nihilist man (Donald Sutherland, also not associated with this genre).

At the start of The Infinity Gauntlet, the alien nihilist Thanos has collected the six infinity gems and attached them to his gauntlet.

In Avengers: Infinity War, the longest, priciest, and most - crowded crowd - pleaser ever to roll off the Marvel Studios assembly line, Earth's mightiest heroes face their most daunting challenge yet: an intergalactic nihilist whose dearest dream is to cleave the entire population of the universe in half.

Parenthood, or whatever nihilist - based form of it, was under the microscope in DOGTOOTH.

For the Mad Titan alternately known as the ultimate nihilist, the glove that can harness and regulate the powers of the Infinity Stones must feel like an extension of himself.

The two run into a bizarre cast of characters, ranging from nihilists to porn producers.

If that weren't enough, Peter Stormare, playing one of the nihilists, finally gets the pancakes he'd been pining for.

It's just one puzzle in an altogether puzzling film — one that has Patrick Swayze playing Charlie Sheen's older brother (and Jennifer Grey the sister of Lea Thompson in an even greater genetic stretch) and C. Thomas Howell as a remorseless, psychopathic nihilist who takes his dose of glory by Rambo'ing up against a Russian attack helicopter.

This bowler / stoner / free spirit is mistaken for a millionaire (David Huddleston) by a band of German punk nihilists, and John Goodman is his Vietnam Vet bowling buddy, who sinks him deeper into trouble with one testosterone - and - rig hteous - indignation - f ueled scheme after another.

Looking for compensation, The Dude confronts the intended victim, only to be inadvertently drawn into a web of kidnappings, ransom drops and nihilists.

With the splendid drawing - room black comedy «The Party,» shot at the run - up to the nihilist Brexit referendum, Potter finds a medium of satire and belly laughs in seventy swift minutes, shot in black - and - white, etched in vitriol, shot in the confines of her own longtime London townhouse in under two weeks.

In Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon, he upped the conventional post-48 Hours buddy - buddy cop pic by the simple expedient of making the lead (Mel Gibson) a crazed unpredictable nihilist.