Sentences with phrase «understand nihilism»

Not exact matches

Often called neo-reactionaries but better understood as classicists, a third group of French thinkers refuses both nihilism and Islamism.

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

Great ones become touchstones for our self - understanding: Ivan Karamozov, the voice of our skeptical nihilism; Jay Gatsby, an emblem for our self - invention.

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

Maybe things we don't understand yet will reveal that nihilism is not unavoidable.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

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.

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.

For example, Martin Heidegger argues that the whole modern view of the person as an active subject engaged in the process of knowing leads to the «nihilism» of Nietzsche, to the idea of knowing as the pure exercise of the will to power which has its fullest expression in contemporary science and technology (see, e.g., QT): In one sense my response can only be that I believe knowing is most truly understood as an active process, and that I think that the idea of a purely receptive knowing is a myth, albeit perhaps an appealing one.

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.

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 first thing you need to understand, when approaching Frostpunk, is that it is not an ordinary city builder, but a survival experience that uses management mechanics as a means to support, on a playful level, the elements of social engineering and nihilism that define it.

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.