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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

CHAPTER

Is There a Middle Way to Nihilism?

The typical way of thinking, and we can talk about how this comes up with Nietzsche too, is if eternalism is false, therefore nihilism must be true because of this common misunderstanding that they both share. And what we were kind of speaking about was this, there are certain kinds of insights that require deconstructing maybe like a naive or obvious view. But then as soon as you do that move, people assume you're going to kind of leave it in this negated state, which is actually not what the middle way is about.

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