Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile

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However, holding nihilism does not necessarily imply that one should give up using moral or ethical language; some nihilists contend that it remains a useful tool. Melancholia is the most typical and classical presentation of depression with several compelling features such as impoverishment of emotional life and delusions of nihilism or guilt.

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Bülent Diken, “Nihilism, Revolt, and the Spectacle”, in Nitzan Lebovic, Roy Ben-Shai, editors, The Politics of Nihilism: From the Nineteenth Century to Contemporary Israel (Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy), New York, N. Active nihilists are individuals who actively destroy our old, fake false values like those in Christianist, and begin constructing our own subjective beliefs and interpretations of meaning. The Suttas themselves describe the liberated mind as 'untraceable' or as 'consciousness without feature', making no distinction between the mind of a liberated being that is alive and the mind of one that is no longer alive. Despite the Buddha's explanations to the contrary, Buddhist practitioners may, at times, still approach Buddhism in a nihilistic manner. Therefore, it is up to individuals themselves to create meaning in their lives through their own freedom of choice.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, for example, uses deconstruction to create an ethics of opening up Western scholarship to the voice of the subaltern and to philosophies outside of the canon of western texts. Timmons adds, "The undeniable attraction of this outlook in contemporary philosophy no doubt stems from the rise of modern science and the belief that science is our best avenue for discovering the nature of reality". Nietzsche characterized nihilism as emptying the world and especially human existence of meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities [ sic– meaning puerilities] of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the nihilisms of the German.

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The nihilist characters of the novel define themselves as those who "deny everything", who do "not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in", and who regard "at the present time, negation is the most useful of all".As he lives the same day an unspoken countless number of times he slips into a depression and attempts to take his own life in a variety of different ways.

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The Dada Movement began in the old town of Zürich, Switzerland—known as the "Niederdorf" or "Niederdörfli"—in the Café Voltaire. To all four questions, the Buddha answers that the terms "reappears somewhere else," "does not reappear," "both does and does not reappear," and "neither does nor does not reappear," do not apply. Fathers and Sons concerns the inevitable conflict between generations and between the values of traditionalists and intellectuals. Signed by author~~VG-/VG 1st impression 1st ed 2010 Polygon hardback, unclipped DJ with lovely photo section and intriguing original jacket design, terrific biog of this enigmatic Scottish band. Kierkegaard was religious, and as a result, he believed that leveling was a bad thing; he believed in the intrinsic value of human life.Dave Marsh, “[Review of XTC’s album Go 2 (1978)]”, in Dave Marsh, John Swenson, editors, The New Rolling Stone Record Guide: [ … ] , 2nd edition, New York, N.