Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642
Abstract:
On active nihilism. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever,” (Isaiah 40:8) but as Bernard Williams points out the idea of a “Universal Word” has to be replaced by a deed, whether made profound or mundane, in our post-Christian state of affairs. Ultimately, in both life and death, what can be said of each person, is the “possession” or “ownership” via memory and ‘legacy’, which is made both profound and mundane from perspective. This is the value which is conditioned in the memory of those who will exist and make each person history.
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Featured Image: Bernard Williams on ‘deed’.
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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