Mar 23, 2021 · Nihilism is a side effect of depression. Depressed people tend to think about things and if you're logical and thinking about things nihilism is the logical conclusion. there's four things I do to not be depressed and if I'm not doing them I will eventually be depressed.

Oct 16, 2023 · Nihilism is not hating life. Nihilism is not being sad, nor having depression, necessarily. Nihilism also is not not caring about things, or hating everything. All these may be correlated, but correlation doesn't imply causation. Nihilism may be described as the belief that life has no value, although I think this is not a total, precise ...

May 3, 2021 · The concept that somehow nihilism is "bad" (especially moral nihilism) is arguing the point outside of a nihilistic standpoint. In a super oversimplified way of saying it: who cares if it's good or bad? What you're speaking of is the concept of depression caused by nihilism rather than optimism caused by nihilism.

Jul 4, 2021 · Nihilism is the belief that there is no fundamental reason for anything, no objectively true values. What you do with that concept is up to you. You can feel that nihilism means that everything is meaningless, or you can take the stance of what has been called 'positive nihilism' - that you are responsible for creating your own meaning, and ...

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Nihilism is a broad topic in philosophy, but existential nihilism (which is what OP is describing) doesn't exclude subjective value, only the objective. Most often, it postulates that intrinsically, there is no value. It says nothing about perception or internal interpretation. In some respects, you can compare or even link it to relativism.

Jan 9, 2016 · At least in my conception of it, nihilism doesn't argue that morals are false, because to do so implies a value to truth, which nihilism also regards as an empty concept. In other words, a nihilist doesn't say, "Your moral system is wrong," a nihilist says, "Your moral system and its truth value are arbitrary and irrelevant."

May 1, 2019 · The general problem with nihilism is that you have to believe in something in order to build a framework that gives nihilism as your conclusion. This one is a particularly easy one, because it seems to be arguing life would be meaningful if, for instance, we developed artificial bodies that lived forever (or, even just a human civilization that ...

Jun 6, 2021 · Nihilism holds that things and life have no inherent meaning. That's what Nihilism is. It isn't anything but this. It's about everything being meaningless: a big nothingness. What Nihilism does in terms of reducing everything to meaninglessness, is effectively destroys many of the things that we have been led to believe are true/real/whatever.

Mar 12, 2021 · It's a philosophically very uninteresting way of looking at life because it falls into two categories. Theories either see the future as unknown or as known. That is to say, theories either open up the future or close the future. Nihilism considers the future as known, and thus it sort of ends all enquiry on that ground.