Abstract
Is cynicism a sure sign of decline? And what is decline? A clear understanding of something being lost forever? Maybe so, but what is lost forever must be the goal or meaning of one’s action. If some-one is acting without any aim, his action must be considered as an aimless action that is per definitionem a human state of despair or anguish. Modern cynicism is to a great extent the acknowledgment of an ever present sense of crisis that is a modern phenomenon. Being modern means that we are under the strain of seeking the new as if human goals were stored somewhere in the future. It means that old experience, mainly aspiring to be framed in wisdom, should not play any role in the formation of human behavior and decisions. We are worshippers of knowledge, progress, and less politics at the expense of losing faith in wisdom, nature, and leadership. All this would amount to utopian state of mind and often hostility to reality. Modern cynicism is a recognition and expression of the growing tension between wisdom and knowledge, faith and rationality, and nature and history.
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