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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"nihilism"”.
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Nietzsche's reconception of science: overcoming nihilism
… Scientific constructivism helps overcome nihilism because it correctly captures the nature of scientific investigation. Affirming constructivism thus allows inquirers to commit to the scientific project without deceiving themselves about the nature of the objects of inquiry.
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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism
… chapter 1, I present my version of mereological nihilism, Minimal Truthmaker Nihilism (MTN). According to MTN, only the minimal truthmakers for all true sentences are included in the correct ontology and composite objects are not among the minimal truthmakers. I argue that the proponent of MTN …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… respective approaches to the problem of nihilism. The work begins by positioning Nishitani’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s account of nihilism with reference to diverse readings of Nietzsche in Western scholarship. I then consider the development of Nishitani’s reading of Nietzsche from …
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Heidegger and Nishitani: nothingness, nihilism, and the possibility of meaning
… the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji. Nihilism is taken as the experience of existence as meaningless and phenomena as uniformly insignificant due to the restriction of alternate manners of self-understanding through the forgetting of the origin of meaning. The approach will not be to …
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Between nihilism and transcendence : Albert Camus' dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
… unique understanding of the relationship between nihilism, ideology, and political violence in the twentieth century. I focus on Camus’ dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky for three reasons. First, these are the thinkers with whom Camus is most engaged. Indeed the problems and themes of Camus’ …
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The Death of God: An Analysis of the Existential Solutions to the Problem of Nihilism
The problem of nihilism has plagued individuals, philosophers, and wider society throughout history. Nihilism is most understood as the process in which our beliefs and values become meaningless or devoid of value. The rise of Nihilism can be traced to the nineteenth century when scientific …
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The Threat of Nihilism and the Prospect of Non-Nihilistic Metaphysics in Jacobi and Hegel
… commitments around the problem of <em>nihilism, </em>a threat he first pronounced in 1799 That is, I sketch out what Jacobi's non-nihilistic metaphysics, might be by reading his scatter-shot work through the unifying lens of <em>the threat of nihilism. </em>I then use that as a lens …
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THE DYNAMICS OF XENOGENETICS AND SECTRANRIANISM IN LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR: A STUDY OF NIHILISM AND SCIENTIFIC UPHEAVAL
… of Lovecraftian horror and Lovecraft’s professed nihilism. The consequence of such criticism is that similar critical readings are produced, contributing to a rhetorical atrophy that prohibits the possible depth of scholarly inquiry. Indeed this limitation is made apparent by the small pool of …
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Nothing
… is the empty possible world of metaphysical nihilism, and the first chapter is a rejection of the only prominent argument for that position; the subtraction argument. In the second part of my discussion I construct a positive argument against metaphysical nihilism, I assume, as is common in …
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A Polanyian tack: political implications
… untenable and eliminates intellectual freedom by nihilism or totalitarianism; in (1) by nihilism; and (2) by totalitarianism. Nihilism starts in a wrong understanding of truth or how it is pursued while totalitarianism stems from over-emphasis on CAT. Tacit knowledge is a way to analyse (1) the …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… provides society with new values in response to nihilism. Thirdly, I demonstrate how Zelda Fitzgerald offers a life-affirming philosophy in her only published novel, in which she adapts Nietzsche's arguments of amor fati and the process of becoming. Fourthly, I argue that Richard Wright's protest …
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"An essay concerning subjectivity and scientific realism: Some fancies on Sellarsian themes and onto-politics"
… incoherent, which leads his system into nihilism. From this I trace out the role that science can play with respect to subjectivity in a nihilistic world. To partially counter this nihilism, I articulate an alternative to scientific realism that is based, in part, on my pragmatic account …
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Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism
… his larger philosophical project of overcoming nihilism. Here I argue that Nietzsche's views on cognition follow directly from his analysis of the nihilism of post-Christian Europe and that his project of overcoming that nihilism requires a complete revaluation of human knowing. Chapter Two asks …
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Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce
… of view, part of the answer may be sought in nihilism, which exemplified the global crisis at the turn of the twentieth century. Nihilism, according to Michael Gillespie, is a fundamental feature of modernity. Thus, it is modernity that ultimately links Lu Xun and Joyce together.</p>
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Heidegger, Holderlin, Hitler: Evaluating the Proximity of Heidegger's Philosophy to National Socialism Through the Significance of Poetry for His Concept of Truth, 1927-1937
… project gains increased focus on the problem of nihilism and the destiny of the German nation. Further, this study argues that although Heidegger’s introduction of the work of art attempts to address the limitations that he saw in the movement, the significance of art attempts to achieve what he …
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Nietzsches Begriff der décadence : kritik und analyse der moderne
… terms the movement which opposes all idealisms a nihilism. Nihilism derives from the understanding that the highest philosophical, religious and ethical values have become devalued. The understanding that truth is based on mere appearance and that it is no 'thing as such', as believed by Platonic …
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Thinking Through the Phenomenon of Trust: A Philosophical Investigation
… life has led to the possibility of "radical nihilism," which represents the devastating loss of trust in life (i.e., mere "bare" life). In order to avoid radical nihilism, Nietzsche advocates a healthy mistrust of all pathological forms of trust and the creation of a vital trust of life that …
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The concept of authenticity in Heidegger's Being and Time: thoughts and revisions on a critical theme
… of Being and Time in the general context of nihilism and belief Drawing on arguments put forward by Hubert Dreyfus, and especially attuned to Kierkegaard's influence on Heidegger, the study repositions the concept at the point where Heidegger's existential analytic and the all too human …
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Nietzsche's eternal recurrence of the same : the effect of logic abridgement, contradictions and inconsistencies
… to which E-R fulfills its purpose in overcoming nihilism is measured against the comfort assured by major world religions in rubric eight. Whether E-R also serves as a redemption for revenge is questioned in rubric nine. Rubric ten assures that E-R refers to return of the identically same and not …
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Kierkegaard's category of repetition: a reconstruction.
… against the background of the thematization of nihilism in thinkers such as Nietzsche and Heidegger. Kierkegaardian repetition, it is argued, assumes th~ end of traditional metaphysics, but it interprets the event of nihilism in a way which is radically different from Nietzsche and Heidegger. …
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