{"id":1112,"date":"2023-09-01T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/01\/the-primordial-wanderers-an-antidote-to-nihilism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:46:49","slug":"the-primordial-wanderers-an-antidote-to-nihilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2023\/09\/01\/the-primordial-wanderers-an-antidote-to-nihilism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Primordial Wanderers: An Antidote to Nihilism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project explores how nihilism is an inevitability that emerges out of Schopenahuer&#8217;s pessimistic worldview and Nietzsche&#8217;s death of God. The project makes the case that by examining the night sky&#8217;s historical significance to humankind, we can affirm our lives through its wonder. More specifically, we can affirm our lives and all existence through the night sky&#8217;s primordial wonder, which corresponds to Nietzsche&#8217;s abandonment of Wagner&#8217;s tragic music drama in The Birth of Tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Cheng, 2023, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,22,123],"tags":[186,6,187],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-162","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-affirmation","tag-nietzsche","tag-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}