Dr. J. Budziszewski

That's cool.

I'm so cool that I like things meaningless.

You've got the Jerry Seinfeld show kind of nihilist who says, nothing has any meaning.

Where are we going to have lunch?

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

And it's very funny, if you're not in it.

But it's hopeless.

I don't think you can argue yourself into it, strictly speaking, because it involves incoherencies.

You know, for instance, we said that...

if you really can't if if even statements about truth are meaningless then you can't even say that nihilism is true well philosophy involves making arguments if arguments themselves become incoherent how can you argue yourself into it i don't think that i don't think of nihilism really as a philosophy i don't even like to call nisha a philosopher he was a thinker but um but even see he said he said rational thought is just rationality is just a mode of thought we can't escape

which is a very nihilist thing to say.

Now, so I don't think you can argue it into it.

I think a better way to describe it is as a version of a way of experiencing the sin of despair, whereupon it takes on the garments of philosophy.

It's a way of experiencing the sin of despair, whereon it takes on the garments of philosophy.

It cloaks itself in philosophical clothing.

Or for self-justification.

You know, you can't, it's just like I had commented that I knew deep down that there was a good and evil and I just told myself I didn't.

Deep down you have to know that even if you can't find the meaning of things, that there's got to be a meaning of things.