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Even such admitted Post-modernists as Jurgen Habermas have admitted thatthe anarchy unleashed by nihilism is unsustainable, and results in a world of corrosive misery.
As Voltaire — not exactly a Christian soldier — was fond of saying, “If God did not exist, we should have to invent Him.”
IMHO it's a bit of a conceit in that just because we give something a name, or explain it somehow, that we understand it.
I suppose it's part of man's makeup to want to "master", but to paraphrase Shakespeare, just because we call something a rose doesn't mean we understand why it smells so sweet.
In terms of ethics, meaning and values there are only two options: Deism and Nihilism. There is no rational middle ground. Apart from a transcendent God there is no basis for objective morality. Apart from God there is only personal preference and social convention. Apart from God all righteousness is self-righteousness.
Interesting article.
However, neither the commies nor the Nazis were nihilists.
They had values they believed in strongly, which motivated them to commit their horrible crimes.
Their values were sick and perverted, not non-existent.
Nietzsche was anything but a nihilist. Nihilism was Nietzsche’s greatest fear and his entire body of philosophy was written to combat it. When he wrote that God Is Dead that is just exactly what he was talking about: Europe sliding into a morass of nihilism due to a loss of faith. If the author had tried reading him instead of cursing him she’d have found that he buttressed her argument.