Sentences with phrase «toward nihilism»

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.»

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.

If the ascetical way of silence is not carefully qualified by at least some degree of sacramentalism, by the mystical sense of transcendence, and the activist concern for the world, it tends toward nihilism, the view that all things are empty of value.

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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.

The process worked incrementally and backward, not toward faith but away from nihilism, fueled by the rising conviction that the conclusion I had drawn long ago was wrong.

While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism by reaffirming the two old truths: the existence of objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»

Occasionally he tilts toward the supernatural nihilism that Lovecraft cultivated, in which the universe is a thin membrane spread over a screaming abyss.

He lived in an age of belief, yet a streak of skepticism runs through his work, especially toward the end of his career; in King Lear it reaches an almost euphoric nihilism.

Dark though the journey may be, «I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore» ultimately challenges its characters» nihilism, pointing toward a certain strength in togetherness to counter what can feel like overwhelming depression about the state of the world.