Today, on renewing your mind.

Nietzsche is often considered the modern father of nihilism.

And nihilism basically has the creed that there are no

eternal truths, there is no eternal purpose, and there is

no ultimate meaning or significance to human existence.

And oh, how we see the consequences of that philosophy.

It's played out before our eyes every day, it seems.

What was sin just a few years ago is now lauded as virtue.

Hello and welcome to the Thursday edition of renewing your mind.

I'm Lee Webb.

The modern father of nihilism that R.C. Sproul referred to is

the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Let's find out why his ideas continue to be so destructive.

One of the most frequent questions that people ask me from time to time is the

question, what is existentialism?

And my standard reply to the question is existentialism is the

philosophy of existence.

And when I give that kind of an answer to the people kind of look at nihilism

like to say, thank you very much, it doesn't really help.

Well, we'll be looking in the lectures to come at some of the most

important characteristics of modern existential philosophy,

because apart from Marxism, there's been no philosophy that has such

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