Category Archives: Nihilism

What’s It All About?

January 20, 2022NihilismJohn Messerly

What’s It All About?
Sylvia Jane Wojcik / December 31, 2021 Continue reading What’s It All About? →

Nietzsche: Active and Passive Nihilism

March 25, 2020NihilismJohn Messerly

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Nihilism?

Nihilism is the philosophical doctrine that denies the existence of one or more of those things thought to make life good especially truth, values, or meaning. A nihilist doesn’t believe that knowledge is possible, that anything is valuable, or that life has meaning. Nihilism also denotes a general mood of despair or pessimism toward life. Continue reading Nietzsche: Active and Passive Nihilism →

Commentary on the Varieties of Nihilism

November 29, 2015NihilismJohn Messerly

Sisyphus by Titian, 1549

For the past ten days or so I’ve been discussing various views about the meaning of life that I’d classify as nihilistic Continue reading Commentary on the Varieties of Nihilism →