Knowledge and Human Values: A Genealogy of Nihilism.

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

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Publication Date: 1981

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Knowledge and Human Values: A Genealogy of Nihilism.

Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Teachers College Record, v82 n3 p507-20 Spr 1981

Nihilism is the fundamental movement in the history of the West. Materialism is a symptom of nihilism. Materialism is the view that all meaning has gone from the cosmos, nature, and culture. Values are objective, explicit options which imply the existence of choice. (JN)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Models, Philosophy, Psychological Patterns, Religion, Sciences, Scientific Attitudes, Values Clarification, Western Civilization

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