Nihilism

Nietzsche, Christianity’s sacrifice of God ultimately left humanity with nothing but science, and now humanity worships that. The unfolding of sacrifice throughout the ages is troublesome for Nietzsche since it seems to culminate in what he believes is “nihilism”. Nietzsche also references the philosopher as the “free spirit”…

In the final paper, I plan to explore what leads Russian intelligentsia participating in the 1870s-1880s populism movement to use violence as the main form of political struggle. After the failure of nihilism to bring about social changes that addressed the frustrated expectations following the emancipation of serfs, populism took over as the dominant orientation of the intelligentsia. As before, the intelligentsia regarded as their responsibility to improve the social, economic and moral…

According to Webster’s dictionary nihilism is: “the belief that traditional morals, ideas, beliefs, etc., have no worth or value” and also: “the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed”. This idea is one of the leading arguments as to why Nietzsche chose to physically write about books like “Beyond Good and Evil”, and “Genealogy of Morals”. Through some of these reading one may be able to evaluate some of the most intriguing ideas in…

Reception Theory, they are able to find things to make their characters more relatable to the viewers. The media marketing strategy of the content creators are well thought over as they apply nihilistic philosophy to appear more biased in any case. Nihilism is defined as a belief that nothing matters, and that everyone in the world is here by random chance. By this philosophy, they are able to capture the central idea that nothing has meaning, and that purpose is nothing but artificial; since it…

He attended Waseda University in Tokyo, studying French literature and becoming interested with nihilism. After he graduated, he secured a job at a news agency, but he was only there for a month. Because Japan was at war, and Mutsuhiro was “deeply patriotic” (239), he enlisted in the army, like most men who were full of pride for their country.…

around Charlie after the investigation. They clearly did not do this, due to the fact that Charlie was fired from his job. They also began to become jealous of his intelligence, which caused them to reject him and begin the idea of "therapeutic nihilism," (Lasagna), which is deciding there is no cure to disease. These lack of psychological analysis resulted in a non-ethical…

to what the core message of this novel truly is; some believe that LOTF is a metaphor for the horrors that Golding witnessed during his service in WWII(this is undoubtedly the most popular theory due to the total lack of girls); a declaration of nihilism; a metaphor for the garden of eden; or that it shows the true capacity for evil that lurks within the souls of men, and the rotting pig head represents our moral depravity. I, on the other hand believe the theory that all of the character are…

minimally altered and displayed as art. These creations challenged the concept of retinal art— art that was purely reliant on visuals or aesthetics— and helped establish the artist’s spot as one of the forefront artists of the Dada movement. The pang of nihilism due to the first world war accompanied by the rise of cubism thanks to Picasso and Braque, brought forth the new movement of Dadaism, which opposed the artistic standard of the time by principally challenging what was to be considered…

Nietzsche had a significant occurrence in Camus’ two primary theoretical works: The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) and The Rebel (1951). In these works, the problem of nihilism is explored from an individual and collective perspective respectively. In both of these works the source of Camus’ understanding of nihilism stems from Nietzsche (Woodward, 2014). In addition, the conclusion of The Myth of Sisyphus reflects Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return. Similarly, many Nietzchean themes are…

Is it just to give unelected judges the ability to make moral and political decisions on behalf of a community, despite the fact that the community has no active role deciding whom these judges are? Jeremy Waldron is one of many adversaries of judicial review; subsequently he does not think that unelected judges should be permitted to make political or moral decisions on behalf of the community (Waluchow Constitutions as Living Trees 534). I disagree with Waldron and side with Wilfred Waluchow,…