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there are no limits pretty much to what he can do to gain pleasure.
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I would argue that there is a direct line
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from the Enlightenment philosophy to nihilism,
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that is to say a philosophy that says
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there are no limits to what human beings may do.
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What turns out to be the practical fact
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is that he who has the power and the will to do
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what he wants will be able to do so,
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and he who has not will be forced to suffer
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whatever the powerful impose on him.
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And this is seen by the original nihilists as a good thing.
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What's his name, Nietzsche, of course,