/lit/ - Literature

Gonna read this one soon, heard by all that it is fantastic.

>>19562733
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrd76_o00E&list=PLJ4cgfQlICJm5DGBWDEmEcHqWyB9P2r6P

>>19257296
https://oodegr.com/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm#I._

"Absolute truth": the phrase has, to a generation raised on skepticism and unaccustomed to serious thought, an antiquated ring. No one, surely--is the common idea--no one is naive enough to believe in "absolute truth" any more; all truth, to our enlightened age, is "relative." The latter expression, let us note-"all truth is relative"-is the popular translation of Nietzsche's phrase, "there is no (absolute) truth"; the one doctrine is the foundation of the Nihilism alike of the masses and of the elite.

"Relative truth" is primarily represented, for our age, by the knowledge of science, which begins in observation, proceeds by logic, and progresses in orderly fashion from the known to the unknown. It is always discursive, contingent, qualified, always expressed in "relation" to something else, never standing alone, never categorical, never -absolute."

The unreflective scientific specialist sees no need for any other kind of knowledge; occupied with the demands of his specialty, he has, perhaps, neither time nor inclination for "abstract" questions that inquire, for example, into the basic presuppositions of that specialty. If he is pressed, or if his mind spontaneously turns to such questions, the most obvious explanation is usually sufficient to satisfy his curiosity: all truth is empirical, all truth is relative.

Either statement, of course, is a self-contradiction. The first statement is itself not empirical at all, but metaphysical; the second is itself an absolute statement. The question of absolute truth is raised first of all, for the critical observer, by such self-contradictions; and the first logical conclusion to which he must be led is this:, if there is any truth at all, it cannot be merely "relative." The first principles of modern science, as of any system of knowledge, are themselves unchangeable and absolute; if they were not there would be no knowledge at all, not even the most "reflective" knowledge, for there would be no criteria by which to classify anything as knowledge or truth.

This book handily refutes liberalism in all of its forms, and all of its intellectual progeny.

>single-handedly BTFOs all modern philosophy and political theory

>>18294144

>>18202772
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Rene Guenon's Crisis of the Modern World
Seraphim Rose's Nihilism: Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
Dionysios Farasiotis' The Gurus, The Young Man, and Elder Paisios

Remember friend: "The truth that there is no truth" is a logical contradiction and thus false.

it's even CHUD friendlier Nietsche
which is all dead ends in pick related

>>17378902
No, but this is.