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In the words of Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men, if those Mexicans are dead are they still Mexicans?…… If you “bought” a Jewish baby, could you raise her to be human?
?? some effects of ‘nihilism’.
There are quite some differing sorts of ‘nihilism’.
At the core of nihilism is the conviction that there is to some great extent no common truth among humans.
An early example of this was the Sophist, Menon of Pharsala.
He had a sort of nihilism with which he wanted to conquer the world.
He held that there was no common truth among humans.
If there is then humans cannot perceive it properly. And if they can this they cannot communicate it….
(You can look up the original bit in Greek in “Fragmente der Vorsokratiker”.)
Comment:
If it’s true what he says then it’s invalid what he says….
So it tries to establish a nihilistic attitude towards ‘everything’ invalidating itself….
ATTITUDE: If nothing is true then the subject speaking, thinking can do whatever he/she/it lists…….
You get a similar result if you take part in the Kol Nidre ceremony, and don’t notice that the text of it invalidates itself in almost every respect