AGEIt is most a pity that many people--philosophers included--still think Nietzsche "preached a depressing and evidently fascist message" (382), as N. J. Slabbert argues in the Afterword to Bert Olivier's book, Why Nothing Seems to Matter Any More (2020). While...
and about truth’s capacity to inform value. It carries whiffs of the hope invested in this distinction and capacity, and especially in the idea that “learning” bears on the principles according to which life—
First references to the Nihilistic philosophy are contemporary to that, initially by Jacobi and later on by other philosophers, including Nietzsche, who was its main propeller. Some literature propose that Nietzsche suffered from migraine and mental illness, namely bipolar disorder. Discussion Cotard's...
These philosophers mainly focus on passages in Paul’s 1 Corinthians. Whereas they show themselves sensitive to philosophically relevant sections in this letter, the current article challenges their rather far-reaching interpretations. Differently from Badiou, who interprets 1 Cor. 2:1-5 (with its ...
Modern age seen as a developing historical project; Concepts of different philosophers; Sources of contemporary discussions about nihilism and its relationship to the subject; Concept of the `death of God'; Analysis of the root of the modern age.Ibanez-Noe...
These philosophers mainly focus on passages in Paul’s 1 Corinthians. Whereas they show themselves sensitive to philosophically relevant sections in this letter, the current article challenges their rather far-reaching interpretations. Differently from Badiou, who interprets 1 Cor. 2:1-5 (with its ...