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2023
Abstract Nihilists hold that although moral sentences do indeed make claims about purported moral facts, there are no such facts, so all such claims are false. (This should not be confused with the quite different view that all acts are morally permissible.) This chapter lays out the basic nihilist position, and distinguishes between ...
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Abstract Nihilists hold that although moral sentences do indeed make claims about purported moral facts, there are no such facts, so all such claims are false. (This should not be confused with the quite different view that all acts are morally permissible.) This chapter lays out the basic nihilist position, and distinguishes between ...
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2018
As its name implies (from Latin nihil, ‘nothing’), philosophical nihilism is a philosophy of negation, rejection, or denial of some or all aspects of thought or life. Moral nihilism, for example, rejects any possibility of justifying or criticizing moral judgments, on grounds such as that morality is a cloak for egoistic self-seeking, and therefore a ...
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As its name implies (from Latin nihil, ‘nothing’), philosophical nihilism is a philosophy of negation, rejection, or denial of some or all aspects of thought or life. Moral nihilism, for example, rejects any possibility of justifying or criticizing moral judgments, on grounds such as that morality is a cloak for egoistic self-seeking, and therefore a ...
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Cognitive Nihilism, Affective Nihilism, and Their Interplay
2020Given the heterogeneity of forms of will-weakness Nietzsche ascribes to the affective nihilist, I insist in this chapter that “affective nihilism” should be understood as an umbrella term with a variety of life-denying psychophysiological configurations as its referents.
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Nihilism in Postmodernity [PDF]
This dissertation examines the status of nihilism in postmodemity, focusing on its existential dimension. The theory of nihilism developed by Nietzsche gives philosophical expression to the widespread feeling that contemporary cultural conditions reduce the possibility of experiencing life as meaningful.
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Worldly Nihilism and Theological Nihilism — A Possible Definition
2009What is nihilism? Nihilism is a feeling. Nihilism is a fact. Both things concern existence, human dasein, or as Sartre says, taking up a fundamental concept from Heidegger1, “Man is the being through whom nothingness comes to the world” [3]. Which, furthermore, means that the “world” in reality has no knowledge of nothingness. Presence as such — “being”
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Nietzschean Nihilism: A Typology
International Studies in Philosophy, 1987In centuries, the term "nihilism" has been used to refer to idealism, but also to materialism; to Christianity, but also to atheism; to solipsism, but also to pantheism; and, for good measure, to the likes of pessimism and skepticism. The Nietzschean term that suggests itself for the resulting position is "complete nihilism"; but that term must be used
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Sociétés, 2006
Résumé À partir de l’observation assidue des affrontements, scènes d’émeutes, casse et autres violences collectives qui s’exercèrent à la faveur du mouvement dit « anti-cpe » cet article traite plus spécifiquement du phénomène de « swarming de meute ».
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Résumé À partir de l’observation assidue des affrontements, scènes d’émeutes, casse et autres violences collectives qui s’exercèrent à la faveur du mouvement dit « anti-cpe » cet article traite plus spécifiquement du phénomène de « swarming de meute ».
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Nihilism and Nazism: On Rauschning’s The Revolution of Nihilism
Human AffairsAbstract This article is an investigation into Hermann Rauschning’s 1939 book The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West in which he claims that the Nazis should be viewed, not as driven by ideology, but as driven by nihilism.
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