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Extreme metaphysical nihilism, also sometimes called ontological nihilism, is the position that nothing actually exists at all. [103] [104] The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines one form of nihilism as "An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence". [105] A similar skepticism concerning the concrete world can be found in ...
The Russian nihilist movement [nb 1] was a philosophical, cultural, and revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from which the broader philosophy of nihilism originated. [1]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev [nb 1] (14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1840 – 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, [2] and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
That way lies nihilism and the rejection of all standards save strength and tribal loyalty. But we do precisely this sort of thing all of the time in politics and life.
Having leaned as far into political nihilism as we already have, I don’t think realistically there’s a way to lean out. Both sides will start leaning in further until the country falls over ...
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism , where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".