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The Serious Man
When they reach adolescence and learn that the serious values of the adult world are actually flimsy and subjective, some people take this realization in stride and begin to form their own value system, while others turn into nihilists who believe that, because nothing in particular is absolutely valuable for everyone, nothing matters at all. Giving up on existence, they try to destroy it by creating “disorder and anarchy” or even committing suicide.
The Nihilist Quotes in The Ethics of Ambiguity
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The fundamental fault of the nihilist is that, challenging all given values, he does not find, beyond their ruin, the importance of that universal, absolute end which freedom itself is.
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The Nihilist Quotes in The Ethics of Ambiguity
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The fundamental fault of the nihilist is that, challenging all given values, he does not find, beyond their ruin, the importance of that universal, absolute end which freedom itself is.
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