What’s It All About?
Sylvia Jane Wojcik / December 31, 2021 Continue reading What’s It All About?
Category Archives: Nihilism
Nietzsche: Active and Passive Nihilism
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
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
Nihilism
The Nihilist by Paul Merwart (1882) Continue reading Nihilism