People believed in science, philosophy, and society to bring them rational laws and standards of which to critically observe and evaluate the universe, and to guide them in their daily lives. ... Nietzsche believed that the conventional morality of the day was utterly backwards, and that it was hindering any real understanding or grasp of our reality and us as thinking beings. ... Following in the revolutionary footsteps that Nietzsche laid out in world of philosophical thinking, were two equally, if not more influential ideas called logical empiricism (or logical positivism), and existentiali...

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It believes also, then, in the possibility of distinguishing in politics between truth and opinion-between what is true objectively and rationally, supported by evidence and illuminated by reason, and what is only a subjective judgment, divorced from the facts as they are and informed by prejudice and wishful thinking. ...

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