The Experience of NothingnessRoutledge, 2017 M07 28 - 145 páginas In The Experience of Nothingness, Michael Novak has two objectives. First, he shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies. Second, he details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view. Most discussions of these matters have been so implicated in the European experience that the term nihilism has a European ring. Novak, however, articulates this experience of formlessness in an American context.In his new introduction, the author lists four requirements that must be met by an individual in order for the experience of nothingness to emerge: a commitment to honesty, a commitment to courage, recognition of how widespread the experience of nothingness is, and a virtue of will. Novak writes that these principles are what guide self-described philosophical nihilists. But many people simply borrow the nihilistic conclusions without observing the moral commitments to them. For this reason Novak believes that nihilism is fraudulent as a theory intended to explain the experience of nothingness. Nihilism in practice, he maintains, often results in a form of intolerance. The Experience of Nothingness is a work that will cause many scholars to rethink their beliefs. It should be read by philosophers, theologians, sociologists, political theorists, and cultural historians. |
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... ourselves in existence, Pull out the supporting hand, and we're dead. The whole thing around us is sometimes like a play, a stage, which will soon be empty of our presence. I feel that way about the 1960s, the period when I wrote this ...
... ourselves in existence, Pull out the supporting hand, and we're dead. The whole thing around us is sometimes like a play, a stage, which will soon be empty of our presence. I feel that way about the 1960s, the period when I wrote this ...
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... ourselves. The experience of nothingness may lead either to madness or to wisdom. The man who shares it, however wise, appears to those who do not share it (and sometimes to himself) as mad. Wisdom lies on the edge of insanity, just as ...
... ourselves. The experience of nothingness may lead either to madness or to wisdom. The man who shares it, however wise, appears to those who do not share it (and sometimes to himself) as mad. Wisdom lies on the edge of insanity, just as ...
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... ourselves decent and good; we awake to find blood on our hands. Camus wrote: "Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect."22 A tenuous connection, perhaps, but necessary to note. The experience of nothingness always arises ...
... ourselves decent and good; we awake to find blood on our hands. Camus wrote: "Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect."22 A tenuous connection, perhaps, but necessary to note. The experience of nothingness always arises ...
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... ourselves; on the contrary, we are isolated, conformist, and manipulated. The third major myth in universities in 1968 is the need for hard, competitive work. Perhaps no other myth in our society is so painstakingly reinforced from ...
... ourselves; on the contrary, we are isolated, conformist, and manipulated. The third major myth in universities in 1968 is the need for hard, competitive work. Perhaps no other myth in our society is so painstakingly reinforced from ...
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The Source of the Experience | |
Inventing the Self | |
Myths and Institutions | |
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