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Overcoming Nihilism: Nietzsche vs Dostoyevsky

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The Importance of Progress in a Post-Enlightenment Society

In a post-enlightenment, rational society, if you are going with the superstitions of the day, you are considered much more of a person than a faithful religious man. In this perspective, superstition always appears as progress and as a sign that the intellect is becoming more independent and demands its rights. Those who then complain of corruption are the inherent of the old religion and religiosity. Second, a society in which corruption spreads is accused of exhaustion. That's not progress, that's something totally different. Nihilism is progress. Progress is nihilistic. What we're talking about is larping.

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