Father Seraphim Rose's 1994 posthumously published analysis of the nihilist trajectory of modern Western thought — arguing from an Orthodox Christian perspective that liberalism, realism, vitalism, and destructivism represent four stages of Western civilization's progressive abandonment of truth.
Provides the Orthodox Christian diagnosis of Western nihilism's four stages — Rose argues that once the West abandoned the Orthodox Christian understanding of absolute truth, it was inevitable that it would pass through liberalism (relative truth is sufficient), realism (power replaces truth), vitalism (life-force replaces power), and destructivism (nothing is left to oppose destruction).
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