What happened so that people no longer believe in those things – the True, Good and Beautiful?
Let me accede to the redoubtable Betrand Russell: “Pragmatists explained that Truth is what it pays to believe. Historians of morals reduced the Good to a matter of tribal custom. Beauty was abolished by the artists in a revolt against the sugary insipidities of a philistine epoch and in a mood of fury in which satisfaction is to be derived only from what hurts.” Those who suffer the “existentialist blues” have taken a good look at the evil and hypocrisy which exists naturally in the world and conclude there is no truth, no beauty, no goodness. The is only nothingness, and the only courage is the courage to accept this fact. But there can be no adolescent wallowing in a vacuum of despair and loss of meaning; the temptation to nestle with nothingness must be resisted.
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- What happened so that people no longer believe in those things - the True, Good and Beautiful?
