{"id":173798,"date":"2016-09-20T19:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/paradox-of-nihilism-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:10:04","slug":"paradox-of-nihilism-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/nihilism\/paradox-of-nihilism-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of nihilism &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Paradox of nihilism is the name of several paradoxes.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to Hegarty, the paradox of nihilism is \"that the    absence of meaning seems to be some sort of meaning\".[1]  <\/p>\n<p>    Niklas    Luhmann construes the paradox as stating \"that    consequently, only the untrue could be the truth\".[2] In a footnote in his    PhD thesis, Slocombe equates nihilism with the liar    paradox.[3][clarification    needed]  <\/p>\n<p>    Rivas locates the paradox in the \"conservative attitude of    Roman Catholicism\" developed in    reaction to Nietzschean nihilism, in that it \"betrays    a form of nihilism, that is, the forced oblivion of the real    ambiguity and the paradox that inform the distinction between    the secular and the sacred\".[4]  <\/p>\n<p>    In Critical Legal Studies (CLS)    theory, the arguments used to criticize the centrist position    also undermine the position of CLS.[5][clarification    needed]  <\/p>\n<p>    According to Jonna Bornemark, \"the paradox of nihilism is the    choice to continue one's own life while at the same time    stating that it is not worth more than any other life\".[6] Richard Ian Wright    sees relativism as the root of the    paradox.[clarification    needed][7]  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paradox_of_nihilism\" title=\"Paradox of nihilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">Paradox of nihilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Paradox of nihilism is the name of several paradoxes. According to Hegarty, the paradox of nihilism is \"that the absence of meaning seems to be some sort of meaning\".[1] Niklas Luhmann construes the paradox as stating \"that consequently, only the untrue could be the truth\".[2] In a footnote in his PhD thesis, Slocombe equates nihilism with the liar paradox.[3][clarification needed] Rivas locates the paradox in the \"conservative attitude of Roman Catholicism\" developed in reaction to Nietzschean nihilism, in that it \"betrays a form of nihilism, that is, the forced oblivion of the real ambiguity and the paradox that inform the distinction between the secular and the sacred\".[4] In Critical Legal Studies (CLS) theory, the arguments used to criticize the centrist position also undermine the position of CLS.[5][clarification needed] According to Jonna Bornemark, \"the paradox of nihilism is the choice to continue one's own life while at the same time stating that it is not worth more than any other life\".[6] Richard Ian Wright sees relativism as the root of the paradox.[clarification needed][7]  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/nihilism\/paradox-of-nihilism-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}