Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 166 minutes
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| 0:28.3 | ends 5th of may see website for details how did you go from being a nihilist professor to embracing or re-embracing |
| 0:36.9 | the catholic faith i actually prayed to god i said i don't think you're there and i think i'm talking to religious professor to embracing or re-embracing the Catholic faith. |
| 0:37.8 | I actually prayed to God. I said, I don't think you're there. And I think I'm talking to the |
| 0:41.7 | wall. But if you are there, you can have me. But you're going to have to show me because I can't |
| 0:45.8 | tell anymore. And that was true because I'd torn up my own mind. |
| 0:49.0 | I want to get your opinions on AI, transhumanism, where this is all leading. |
| 0:53.0 | They thought that it was inevitable. |
| 1:14.0 | What general would not welcome the prospect of soldiers who never had to sleep and who couldn't disobey their orders? Could you tell me a bit about Nietzsche? I think a lot of people hear about him. They're afraid to read him. I run into people who really want to believe in God, but they just don't know how to. And I'm not going to trade in my intellectual credibility to believe some bloody fairy tale. |
| 1:11.9 | But I want to. If it were real, I would do it. |
| 1:17.6 | What do we mean by nihilism? |
| 1:19.0 | It's a way of experiencing the sin of despair whereupon it takes on the garments of philosophy. |
| 1:24.7 | The root of the word NIH-I-L is nothing means nothing. Deep down, you know, just as well as I do, |
| 1:31.4 | that the longing for meaning and coherency is deep-set in every created mind. I love it. |
| 1:35.9 | So why don't you tell me, what is it that you want so badly that you're willing to do without meaning and coherency to have it? |
| 1:52.0 | I'm want to know about this. |
| 1:53.7 | So you have been on interviews. |
| 1:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.5 | And the people have said, what? |
| 1:59.0 | They said, don't make noises like tapping on keyboards. |
| 2:02.6 | I said, we're kind of tapping on keyboards. |
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