41. Blake, Kierkegaard, And The Spectre Of Dialectic of tensions between scepticism and affirmation, religion and nihilism,philosophy and poetry - central to our understanding of romanticism. http://www.litencyc.com/php/adpage.php?id=2504

42. Foul Philosophy? - The Free Radical Online of person who should be speaking out against modern philosophy s nihilism . For Pritchard, though, nihilism is inherent, albeit in a subtle manner http://www.freeradical.co.nz/content/46/46register.php

68th Free Radical The New Zealand Election - Statism or Selfhood? - Lindsay Perigo Current Issue Contents Online Article Archive Craccum Archive PI Show Archive ... E-Mail the Editor Bryan Register Foul Philosophy? Some of Cameron Pritchard's complaints about academic philosophy ("The Fouling of Philosophy," TFR 45) are exaggerated, and some of them are wrong. All of them betray the alienation endemic to Objectivists in academia, an alienation which need not and should not obtain. Pritchard suggests that having only taken a semester's worth of introductory philosophy classes, "far from making me unqualified to comment, ...means that I am exactly the sort of person who should be speaking out against modern philosophy's nihilism." There is a distinction which Pritchard has not observed: that between persons who have an interest in something and those qualified to remark on that thing. I have a strong interest in environmental concerns: if they are true, I have an interest in living in an unpolluted environment; if they are false, I have an interest in living in an unregulated market. But I have never studied environmentalism in any depth, and am thus unqualified to remark on the wisdom of environmentalists' demands and the verity of their claims. Likewise for Pritchard: he is as surely right to say that he has an interest in philosophy as he is wrong to say that he is in a position to comment on it wisely. For Pritchard, that paragraph probably looks like routine academic babble; typical victim/practitioner of modern philosophy, I have been "taught by example to indulge in the most hair-splitting mind games possible..." and now, as a graduate student in philosophy, am the sort of person who "lives his intellectual life in a process of constant refutation and rejection." My hair-splitting distinction between having an interest in something and being qualified to talk about it is my nasty nihilism showing through. But it is academic philosophers, not Objectivists, who are given to the dictum "A difference, in order to be a difference, must make a difference." The fact that Pritchard's first-semester education has ill-prepared him to grasp the import of philosophical distinctions does not mean that the distinctions are invalid.

43. Nihilism And The Law (Or academic philosophy ), and how much we could know only from scripture or Leff rejected the nihilism implicit in modernism, but he also rejected the http://www.id.ucsb.edu/fscf/LIBRARY/JOHNSON/nihilism.html

Nihilism and the End of Law Phillip E. Johnson Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley Published in First Things, March 1993, No. 31 W hen President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favour of employing "natural law" in constitutional interpretation. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee that had to pass upon the nomination, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, emphasised that he too believed in the existence of natural law. Indeed, he had successfully opposed a previous Republican nominee to the Supreme Court Judge Robert Bork, in part because Bork had denied that the Constitution protects certain "natural rights" that are not mentioned in the document itself. At that time senator Biden had insisted that "my rights are not derived from any government ... my rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of our fellow citizens by our Creator and they represent the essence of human dignity." Senator Biden feared, however, that Judge Thomas might believe in the wrong kind of natural law. He explained the difference between good and bad natural law in a newspaper article that expanded on the theme first advanced in

44. Nihilism nihilism is a philosophy that originated with ancient Greek thinkers and In a much broader sense, nihilism is a philosophy that governs the way a http://web.mit.edu/ducktape/www/nihilism.html

Alisha Schor Ms. Gupta English 10 Honors, Period 5 10 May 2001 Nihilism: The Evolutionary Perspective             The word “nihilism” comes from the Latin nihil , meaning nothing (Pratt).  Nihilism is a philosophy that originated with ancient Greek thinkers and evolved through time (Freydis).  Ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, who urged Greeks to question the world rather than simply accept it, are often credited with being the first to have nihilistic ideas (“Heidegger, Martin”).  The first substantial movement that could be considered nihilist was the Skeptics (c. 400-350 BCE), who suggested that many of man’s beliefs were subjective rather than definitive (Taylor).  This concept of subjectiveness is one of the main sources of the rejection of values that leads to the emptiness of nihilism (“Nietzsche and Nihilism”).             Modern (or European) nihilism, in the sense that it is commonly referred to today, originated during the nineteenth century (“Nihilism” Britannica ).  The term itself was popularized by Ivan Turgenev in

45. Philosophy Is Dead The philosophy of nihilism has found its place in modern literature, I seethe thrust of philosophy today as a futile effort to make nihilism credible. http://www.essentialism.net/philosophy_is_dead.htm

Philosophy is Dead Generally speaking, classical philosophy has sided with religion in the cultural struggle against nihilism. I expect academic elitists to challenge that statement, since they are mainly responsible for wresting nihilism from the confessional to the "enlightened rationality" of a postmodern world. To put it bluntly, the individual today who has the audacity to argue for a return to spiritual values will invariably be looked upon as either a relic of "theism" or a grandstander of questionable intellectual depth. The polemics of our culture were well characterized by radio talk show host and author Dennis Prager when he said " Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. " Nihilism is the rationalist's answer to idealism. It is the viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is meaningless. The Internet encyclopedia Encarta defines nihilism as "a designation applied to various radical philosophies, usually by their opponents, the implication being that adherents of these philosophies reject all positive values and believe in nothing." Inasmuch as nihilism is the logical conclusion of postmodern humanism, it has become much more typical than "radical" in the development of philosophy. Law professor Phillip Johnston described the current plight of philosophy quite accurately in his 1993 book

46. Transhumanism: A Futurist Philosophy I will not explain what s wrong with nihilism in detail here. The Extropianphilosophy is the most developed form of transhumanism. http://www.maxmore.com/transhum.htm

Home Biography Writing Consulting ... Links TRANSHUMANISM Towards a Futurist Philosophy Max More, Ph.D. maxmore@primenet.com more@extropy.org http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore Religion, Eupraxophy, and Transhumanism Humanity is in the early stages of a period of explosive expansion in knowledge, freedom, intelligence, lifespan, and wisdom. Yet our species persists in old conceptual structures and processes which act as a drag on progress. One of the worst is religious thinking. In this essay I will show how religion acts as an entropic force, standing against our advancement into transhumanity and our future as posthumans. At the same time I will acknowledge the necessary and positive role that religions have played in giving meaning and structure to our lives. The alternative to religion is not a despairing nihilism, nor a sterile scientism, but transhumanism. Humanism, while a major step in the right direction, contains too many outdated values and ideas. Extropianism the principal form of transhumanism moves beyond humanism, focusing on our evolutionary future. Before launching the discussion it will be helpful to distinguish between the notions of religion, humanism, transhumanism, posthuman, eupraxophy, and Extropianism.

47. The Claremont Institute: Leo Strauss, The Bible, And Political Philosophy by the moral relativism, culminating in nihilism, of modern philosophy. This it does because of a spurious resemblance of nihilism to the doctrine http://www.claremont.org/writings/980213jaffa.html

Scholarly Writings is the repository of papers by the Claremont Institute's scholars. Included here are essays and reviews published in academic journals, as well as papers delivered at Institute-sponsored panels at the annual convention of the American Political Science Association. Harry V. Jaffa is a distinguished fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Government at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School. He received his B.A. from Yale, where he majored in English, in 1939, and holds the Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Also by Harry V. Jaffa The Logic of the Colorblind Constitution Posted on December 6, 2004 Wages of Sin Posted on October 11, 2004 Ignoble Liars and Noble Truth-Tellers Posted on August 17, 2004 Looking for something? Enter any text below to search our content. Or, find an article by author topic or date directly. Enter your email address below to join Precepts, our free weekly policy watch newsletter. Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political Philosophy

48. NIHILISM By Eugene Rose Is it correct to call such a philosophy nihilism? Explicit theological andphilosophical nihilism is the preserve of a few rare souls; for most, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/nihilism.html

NIHILISM The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age by Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose [mark-up mostly done- notes need work] CONTENTS Editor's Preface I. Introduction: The Question of Truth II. The Stages of the Nihilist Dialectic 1. Liberalism 2. Realism 3. Vitalism 4. The Nihilism of Destruction III. The Theology and the Spirit of Nihilism 1. Rebellion: The War against God 2. The Worship of Nothingness IV. The Nihilist Program 1. The Destruction of the Old Order 2. The Making of the "New Earth" . 3. The Fashioning of the "New Man" V. "Beyond Nihilism" Eugene's Proposed Outline for The Kingdom of Man and the Kingdom of God EDITOR'S PREFACE In a basement apartment near downtown San Francisco in the earl 1960's, Eugene Rose, the future Fr. Seraphim, sat at his desk covered with stacks of books and piles of paper folders. The room was perpetually dark, for little light could come in from the window. Some years before Eugene had moved there, a murder had occurred in that room, and some said that an ominous spirit still lingered there. But Eugene, as if in defiance of this spirit and the ever-darkening spirit of the city around him, had one wall covered with icons, before which red icon-lamp always flickered. In this room Eugene undertook to write a monumental chronicle of modern man's war against God: man's attempt to destroy the Old Order and raise up a new one without Christ, to deny the existence of the Kingdom of God and raise up his own earthly utopia in its stead. This projected work was entitled

49. 20th WCP: The Threat Of Nihilism: New Educational Opportunities? philosophy of Education. The Threat of nihilism New Educational Opportunities?Paul Smeyers Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Paul.Smeyers@Psy.Kuleuven.Ac.Be http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducSmey.htm

Philosophy of Education The Threat of Nihilism: New Educational Opportunities? Paul Smeyers Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Paul.Smeyers@Psy.Kuleuven.Ac.Be ABSTRACT: In his later work one finds an opposition against the inquiry for a normative theory, to be distinguished from a resistance against a search for norms themselves. Not only was he of the opinion that it is possible to criticise something without such a theory, but he was also convinced of the fact that theory on its own is not able to do that. The correct attitude of the philosopher is not so much to be sought in her ideas as if it would be possible to deduce from there a particular "posture," but in "philosophy as life," in other words in a particular ethos . That is the reason why "work on the self" is conceived in aesthetical categories: life as a "work of art." In aestheticism as an ethical ideal one can distinguish two different directions: a passive, characterized by quietism and resignation and an active where giving shape to oneself and the creation of new values are at the centre of the interest. For Heidegger an authentic poetic life is characterized by a receptivity of and an obedience to the appeal posed to us by being. This throwing open of oneself is called by Heidegger

50. WCP Paper Section: Contemporary Philosophy Javier A. IbanezNoe, Perspectivism, nihilism, and the Task of philosophy.Laura Laiseca, nihilism, End of Metaphysics and Secularization in Nietzsche s, http://www.bu.edu/wcp/section/Contempo.html

Contemporary Philosophy find function under the heading edit . Otherwise, you must browse through the page below in order to locate your name and paper title. Friday, August 14, 09-9:50 Name Title of Paper Amelie Benedikt On Reading Valedictory Texts: Suicide Notes, Last Wills and Testaments Andreas Guttman and Janos Boros On Genophilosophy Igor N. Kalinauskas Art of Living Friday, August 14, 12-13:50 Name Title of Paper Gaetano Chiurazzi Hegel, Heidegger et la grammaire de l'etre A.Kadir Cucen Heidegger's Reading of Descartes' Dualism: The Relation of Subject and Object Wanda Torres Gregory Heidegger on Traditional and Technological Language Matthias Luetkekermoelle How to Inherit a Promise? Derrida and Benjamin on Marx Anatoly Malivsky Problem of Metaphysics: Dialogue of Heidegger with Descartes Abraham Mansbach Heidegger's Critique of Cartesianism Friday, August 14, 14-15:50 Name Title of Paper Kristin DeKam Reconsidering Justification for Naturalized Epistemology After Rorty and Quine: An Argument for Eclectic Viewpoints D. G. Leahy

51. A Companion To Nietzsche - Book Information and nihilism; philosophy of Mind; philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; nihilism and Scepticism in Nietzsche Andreas Urs Sommer (Universitat http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=1405116226

52. Ray Brassier Rabid nihilism; inhumanism; transcendental philosophy and scientific about nihilism called Nihil Unbound philosophy in the Light of Extinction. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/STAFF/Ray Brassier.HTM

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Staff Profiles Taught Programmes MA Aesthetics and Art Theory MA Modern European Philosophy MA Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory Research Degrees ... Links Name Ray Brassier, Research Associate in Modern European Philosophy BA (North-London), MA (Warwick), PhD (Warwick). r.brassier@mdx.ac.uk Research Interests Rabid nihilism; inhumanism; transcendental philosophy and scientific naturalism; eliminative materialism; the Radical Enlightenment; recent French philosophy, especially the work of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Francois Laruelle. Current Projects I am currently working on a book about nihilism called Nihil Unbound: Philosophy in the Light of Extinction. Abstract: The corrosive consequences of scientific enlightenment can be harnessed to effect a transcendental consummation of the logic of nihilism. Transcendental nihilism radicalizes certain theses drawn from eliminative materialism-there are no selves-, punctuated equilibrium -there are no purposes -, and cosmological asymptopia-there is no future. Moreover, it reveals how enlightenment endorses the gnostic heresy. It is not the absence of sense that the gnostic denounces but its obscene transparency. The senselessness of suffering indexes an excess of sense that is evil as such: creation's. Ultimately, transcendental nihilism dissociates the function of philosophy from the interests of the human species by identifying the exigency of enlightenment with the gnostic decision to execrate creation.

53. Apologetics.org - The Universe Next Door By James Sire - Chapter Five nihilism is more a feeling than a philosophy. Strictly speaking, nihilism is nota philosophy at all. It is a denial of philosophy, a denial of the http://www.apologetics.org/books/sire_chapter_five.html

Click the icon to order the Third Edition. The Universe Next Door Chapter Five Zero Point: Nihilism If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a vast blue, Echoless, ignorant What then? Stephen Crane The Black Riders and Other Lines Nihilism is more a feeling than a philosophy. Strictly speaking, nihilism is not a philosophy at all. It is a denial of philosophy, a denial of the possibility of knowledge, a denial that anything is valuable. If it proceeds to the absolute denial of everything, it even denies the reality of existence itself. In other words, nihilism is the negation of every thing knowledge, ethics, beauty, reality. In nihilism no statement has validity; nothing has meaning. Everything is gratuitous, de trop, that is, just there. Those who have been untouched by the feelings of despair, anxiety and ennui associated with nihilism may find it hard to imagine that nihilism could be a seriously held "world view." But it is, and it is well for everyone who wants to understand the twentieth century to experience, if only vicariously, something of nihilism as a stance toward human existence. Modern art galleries are full of its products if one can speak of something (art objects) coming from nothing (artists who, if they exist, deny the ultimate value of their existence). As we shall see later, no art is ultimately nihilistic, but some does attempt to embody many of nihilism's characteristics. Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," an ordinary urinal purchased on the common market, signed with a fictional name and labeled "Fountain," will do for a start. Samuel Beckett's plays, notably

54. Department Of Philosophy: University At Buffalo: Alumni From Night to Day nihilism and the Living Dead Film and philosophy (1996). The Samurai and the Ubermensch Tragic Heroes Reflections (19941995). http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/alumni/alumnipubs.htm

ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS Kisor Chakrabarti PhD University at Buffalo (1975) biography display sheet (pdf) Chienchih Chi PhD University at Buffalo (2004) "A Mistaken Sense in Consciousness", in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Volume 11, Issue 2, (Forthcoming 2004). "A Cognitive Analysis of Confucian Self-Knowledge: According to Weiming Tu’s Explanation" in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, IV.2 (Forthcoming 2005). Margaret Holland PhD University at Buffalo (1991) biography display sheet (pdf) James Humber PhD University at Buffalo (1970) biography display sheet (pdf) William Irwin PhD University at Buffalo (1996) biography display sheet (pdf) Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction with Free Critical Thinking PowerWeb Gregory Bassam, William Irwin, et al., McGraw-Hill (2002)

55. F. Chernov, "Bourgeois Cosmopolitanism And Its Reactionary Role", 1/4 National nihilism in philosophy became apparent first of all in its scornfulattitude towards the legacy of GreatRussian culture. An article by Z. Kamensky http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/chernov/chernov-cosmo-e.html

File added 20031028 Latest update 20031028 Source: Bol'shevik: Theoretical and Political Magazine of the Central Committee of the ACP(B) , Issue #5, 15 March 1949, pp. 30-41. Russkij tekst Original Russian text Bourgeois Cosmopolitanism and its reactionary role by F. Chernov [1 COSMOPOLITANISM infiltrates Soviet arts, sciences, history.] The lead editorials in "Pravda" and "Kultura i Zhizn'" ("Culture and Life") newspapers unmasked an unpatriotic group of theatre critics, of rootless cosmopolitans, who came out against Soviet patriotism, against the great cultural achievements of the Russian people and of other peoples in our country. Appearing as messengers and propagandists for bourgeois ideology, the rootless-cosmopolitans fawned over and groveled before decadent bourgeois culture. Defaming Soviet socialist culture, they praised to the heavens that which was found in the emaciated and decayed conditions of bourgeois culture. In the great culture of the Russian people they saw echos and rehashings of Western bourgeois culture. Harmful and corrupting petty ideas of bourgeois cosmopolitanism were also carried over into the realms of Soviet literature, Soviet film, graphic arts, in the area of philosophy, history, economic and juridical law and so forth.

56. OJPCR 2.2: Integrating Bhuddist Philosophy And Peacemaking Integrating Buddhist philosophy and Peacemaking Theory Further Thought for Nagarjuna explains that the mean between absolutism and nihilism is the http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/2_2walsh.htm

The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution is intended as a resource for students, teachers and practitioners in fields relating to the reduction and elimination of conflict. It desires to be a free, yet valuable, source of information to aid anyone trying to work toward a less violent and more cooperative world. The Conflict Within: The Interpersonal Conflict Between Netanyahu and Arafat Military Intervention in Lesotho: Perspectives on Operation Boleas and Beyond Graduate Studies in Dispute Resolution: A Delphi Study of the Field's Present and Future Integrating Buddhist Philosophy and Peacemaking Theory: Further Thought for Development ... Basic Skills for New Arbitrators Integrating Buddhist Philosophy and Peacemaking Theory: Further Thought for Development John P. Walsh For a printer-friendly version, click here The fundamental difference between Eastern philosophy and Western thought is found in the definition of truth. Madhyamaka philosophy argues that through a Western definition of truth thinking becomes trapped in the extremes of absolutism or nihilism. The Madhyamaka philosopher Nagarjuna suggests that, through the application of right mindfulness, we can discard the binds of extremism in favor of the middle path. Finding the middle way requires the realization that all things are impermanent. As this realization is made, the middle way provides a path of action to break the habitual attachment to things that occur through an improper definition of truth. This path of action is represented in Nagarjuna's statement that all things are

57. The Practical Consequences Of Theoretical Nihilism When, however, philosophy rejects the task of reading the truth of the world ofpersons Theoretical nihilism has principally sprung from antirealism, http://www.vaxxine.com/hyoomik/lublin/possenti.html

maryniar@kul.lublin.pl translated by Hugh McDonald: e-mail: hyoomik@vaxxine.com Catholic University of Lublin Poland The Practical Consequences of Theoretical Nihilism from nihilism to ecology Aristotle wrote in the Protreptikos that it is the duty of the philosopher constantly to turn his gaze "to the nature of things and to the divine" so that "like a good helmsman who has made his life firm in the the eternal and unchanging, he will cast his anchor there." note 1 As long as philosophy does its duty and directs the human mind to the world of persons and things, it serves man and culture. When, however, philosophy rejects the task of reading the truth of the world of persons and things and redirects its attention to an analysis of consciousness, how the meaning of words is established, or a search for the conditions for valid cognition, it ceases to serve man and culture. The antimetaphysical trend in philosophy that has persisted from positivism has proven deadly to philosophy. Instead of liberating philosophy and raising human thought to a higher level, it has given birth to nihilism. Vittorio Possenti's book, Terza navigatione. Nichilismo e metafisica

58. Your Favorite Philosophy Ok, maybe not on the nihilism or apathy. The interesting thing about this score is That quote from Pascal couldn’t describe my personal philosophy more. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/your-favorite-philosophy/

Steve Pavlina . com Personal Development for Smart People Home Free Newsletter Free Articles Steve's Blog ... What philosophy do you follow? My results are consistent with the last quiz: Existentialism 100% Kantianism 55% Justice (Fairness) 55% Hedonism 55% Utilitarianism 45% Strong Egoism 35% Nihilism 20% Apathy 5% Divine Command 0% You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. This entry was posted on Sunday, May 15th, 2005 at 8:22 am and is filed under . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Guillermo Says: May 15th, 2005 at 1:06 pm My results are consistent with my eclecticism, as I got 5 qualities above 50%, also gets along with my pragmatism and altruism. You scored as Utilitarianism. Your life is guided by the principles of Utilitarianism: You seek the greatest good for the greatest number. Justice (Fairness)_ 60% Divine Command60% Strong Egoism50% anonymous Says: May 15th, 2005 at 4:32 pm

59. The Proceedings Of The Friesian School An electronic journal of philosophy, promoting the principles and the further of contemporary philosophy is to illiberal and irrationalist nihilism, http://www.friesian.com/

60. On Heidegger's Nazism And Philosophy Whereas I regard Heidegger s philosophy as ingredient in his politics, Most people, indeed, who admire Nietzsche for his nihilism, tend to have http://www.friesian.com/rockmore.htm

On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy by Tom Rockmore University of California Press, 1992 Among these prophets, Heidegger was perhaps the most unlikely candidate to influence. But his influence was far-reaching, far wider than his philosophical seminar at the University of Marburg, far wider than might seem possible in light of his inordinately obscure book, Sein und Zeit ... When the Nazis came to power, Heidegger displayed what many have since thought unfitting servility to his new masters did he not omit from prints of Sein und Zeit appearing in the Nazi era his dedication to the philosopher [Edmund] Husserl, to whom he owed so much but who was, inconveniently enough, a Jew? Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, the Outsider as Insider , Harper Torchbook, 1970, pp. 81-83. Heidegger's political views are commonly deplored today on account of his early and open support of Nazism. Because of this connection, many like to suppose that his influence on subsequent political thought (as distinct from general intellectual thought) in Europe has been meager. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Heidegger's major ideas were sufficiently protean that with a bit of tinkering they could easily be adopted by the left, which they were... In the writings of numerous thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre, "Heideggerianism" was married to communism, and this odd coupling became the core of the intellectual left for the next generation. James Ceaser, "The Philosophical Origins of Anti-Americanism in Europe," in

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