The Russian nihilist movement was a philosophical, cultural, and revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was the precursor to broader forms of the philosophy of nihilism. In Russian, the word nigilizm (Russian: нигилизм; meaning 'nihilism', from Latin nihil 'nothing at all') came to represent the movement's negation of pre ...

Nihilism (/ ˈ n aɪ (h) ɪ l ɪ z əm, ˈ n iː-/; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as objective truth, knowledge, morality, values or meaning. Different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is ...

Nihilism definition, total rejection of established laws and institutions. See more.

Christianity is platonism for the masses mean they both place the truth on something out of the world (platonic forms and heaven) as a way to find comfort and deny reality. For N it is impossible to obtain truth (see On Truth and Lies in Amoral Sense). I also read a good paper on N's logic, and it argues that we should read him as a logical ...

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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.

Aug 23, 2004 · For Sartre, the ontological freedom of existence entails that determinism is an excuse before it is a theory: though through its structure of nihilation consciousness escapes that which would define it—including its own past choices and behavior—there are times when I may wish to deny my freedom. Thus I may attempt to constitute these ...

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Like foxes themselves, these thought bubbles have philosophies, baggage, virtues, and secrets attached to them. Holders can associate these with a fox, adding new characteristics beyond those that are already a part of them. For example, by adding a solo thought, a fox might become both an existentialist and a nihilist.