30 Phil, Chapter 30, Nietzsche, Touchstone 75: Nihilism.
Shake off societal pressures: Nihilism is a tool to examine and potentially overcome the problem of illusion in reality. You use the idea that life lacks objective meaning, purpose, and intrinsic value to break free of the illusions of life like social constructs and pressures. This updated new look at Nihilism adds modern physics to the telling of how life is meaningless.
In the shadowed forests of the Late Carboniferous, long before mammals, birds, or even dinosaurs,
In the dense, humid forests of the Late Triassic, long before mammals ruled the night,
One of the earliest known true dinosaurs in the Dinosauria order is Eoraptor lunensis. From
I’m taking this time to catch up with the paired videos for recent WWB editions, and to restructure the WWB into seasions of 10 weeks: four 1-Minute Hot Topics. Each week featureing a tidbit in science, philosophy, critical, thinking, and history. Follow the TST YouTube channel to catch all new videos. –Mike
1START: Science >
3Critical Thinking >
4History!
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30 Philosophers: A New Look at Timeless Ideas
