Nihilism

Nihilism is often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), who was one of the first existentialists.

Review of Nothing by Janne Teller 2010

Nihilism is believing in nothing (in some senses, actually quite impossible).

Hegel on Buddhism 2007

Try to free the term from this logical falacy and things always seem to come to a point where Nihilism is so narrowly defined that no one could realisticly endorse it, or so broadly defined that anyone with an ounce of epistemological caution is a Nihilist.

Balkinization 2007

Nihilism is one of those words that instantly biases me against the writer unless a strong enough case has been built up by the time the word is used that I know exactly what the writer means by it.

Balkinization 2007

Nihilism is partly the belief that every decision is yours, no matter how odious the consequences.

Think Progress » VIDEO: Fox Affiliate Airs Ode to White Supremacist Site 2005

At first that seems dark and depressing, but when you really study it, Nihilism is actually the ultimate in freedom.

Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005

At first that seems dark and depressing, but when you really study it, Nihilism is actually the ultimate in freedom.

Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005

Nihilism is an extreme skepticism that rejects all distinctions; relativism is its judgmental off-shoot.

Conservatives for Affirmative Action 2005

If anything had been needed to make the name Nihilism forever odious, it was this deed.

A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele 1877

And clearly you haven’t read a book since third grade if you think Nihilism is hedonism.

Think Progress » Laura Bush’s War on Christmas 2005