12. Affekte and Gefühl are used interchangeably here. 13. Ken Gemes, “Nihilism and the Affirmation of Life: A Review of and Dialogue with Bernard Reginster,” European Journal of Philosophy 16.3 (2008) ...
Philosophy tries to answer some pretty hard questions: What does morality require of us? Are there objective moral truths? Do we have free will? How is the mind related to the brain? Does science ...
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Wiese shows how philosophical ethics and Jewish identity were two inseparable aspects of his thinking, with the fight against Nihilism as the most important link. "A little known 20th century Jewish ...
Sehon, who joined Bowdoin College in 1993, explored efforts by philosophers to find a middle ground between the two extremes of “unscientific magic” and “nihilism” that can confront us when we address ...