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Nihilism is an important topic in the field of philosophy of life. Currently, anti-natalism is hotly debated in the context of the meaning of/in life in analytic philosophy.
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In Philosophy in a Meaningless Life, I set out to reaffirm the question of the meaning of life in the face of outdated, positivistic instincts, the scientistic and anti-religious sentiment that pervades much of contemporary intellectual culture, and, in no small dose, I think, an existential discomfort that makes people reluctant to take up such...
Mar 4, 2021 · Philosophy of religion : selected readings. Publication date. 2014. Topics. Religion -- Philosophy. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press. Collection. claremont_school_of_theology; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
I. Nihilism. Curiosity about the world, as we know, sometimes leads to philoso-phy. It can happen when that curiosity cannot be satisfied by knowledge of one or another event, by knowledge of one or another contingency, or by discovering the causes behind one or another phenomenon.
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Sep 10, 2019 · The author's panoramic exploration of how nihilism developed – not only in philosophy, but also in religion, poetry and literature – shows what an urgent topic it was for thinkers of all...
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Nihilism Defined. A common, but misleading, description of nihilism is the 'belief in nothing'. Instead, a far more useful one would substitute 'faith' for 'belief' where faith is defined as the "firm belief in something for which there is no proof."
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providing a new explanation of the origin of nihilism in the modern context. It should therefore be of interest to scholars in philosophy, religious stud-ies, German literature, Scandinavian Studies, and English Romanticism. Moreover, the book has been written so that it is accessible to students and gen-erally interested readers.
