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    nihilism


    1. Moral Relativism is a precursor to Nihilism


    2. Science, if these views are accepted, furnishes an underpinning for the most virulent nihilism


    3. In their rebellious isolation they turn to an ultimate nihilism not unlike that of the BN Steele describes


    4. Last, online editor of The Weekly Standard, sees Hibbs’ book as expressing a realization that rampant nihilism induces the “flattening of man,” a


    5. Hibbs’ analysis reflects a population seeking, not to fulfill the vision the founders had in mind at Philadelphia in 1787, but drifting toward the abyss where the trails of cynicism, nihilism, and calculated destruction end up together


    6. At best the values, or lack of values, this art world manifests is a nihilism of whimpering indifference


    7. I would see the ultimate nihilism and hopelessness of living—and I would stop acting


    8. For few people can grasp or accept the concept of existential nihilism


    9. For all these so-called epiphenomena—or illusions or side effects of matter—are the enemy of Sci–Coll and its ultimate pursuit of nihilism


    10. It is the nihilism that debilitates me

    11. least today, this moment, I see that nihilism is


    12. Nihilism is a useful device that, in times


    13. I am reminded that nothing really matters, but at least today, this moment, I see that nihilism


    14. Nihilism is a useful device that, in times of crisis, constrains and prevents a total


    15. It also gives them a secular religion, which is easier to live with than nihilism or existentialism


    16. ” It was the Communists who introduced this nihilism; the Nazis merely continued it


    17. abandoned ourselves to either theoretical or practical nihilism, we would


    18. to the dead end of nihilism


    19. possibility…one possibility of which is indeed nihilism


    20. Narcissism is conspicuous nihilism - and the cult's leader serves as a role model, annihilating the Man, only to re-appear as a pre-ordained and irresistible force of nature

    21. “The nu spiritualism is the old nihilism


    22. pluralism gives rise to anarchic nihilism


    23. I Person is the living spiritual principle that chooses whether to value itself or to despise itself; it chooses to embrace certain values and which values have meaning rather than others; it chooses which dreams and projects it will follow; it chooses whether to have hope or to surrender to nihilism


    24. across the endless sea of nihilism


    25. George Carlin represents the pinnacle of comedic nihilism


    26. Does this situation herald the annihilation of individuality? Is this pure nihilism? Does individuality melt into a homogenized cosmic soup? Not really


    27. After a childhood in Kobe, Mutsuhiro attended Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University, where he studied French literature and cultivated an infatuation with nihilism


    28. The final pitfall to which I’d succumbed was nihilism: an occasional sense of, “Whatever, man, everything’s impermanent


    29. The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism


    30. According to the reports of the most talented gossip-mongers—those who, in every class of society, are always in haste to explain every event to their neighbours—the young gentleman concerned was of good family—a prince—fairly rich—weak of intellect, but a democrat and a dabbler in the Nihilism of the period, as exposed by Mr

    31. "It's all incendiarism! It's nihilism! If anything is burning, it's nihilism!" I heard almost with horror; and though there was nothing to be surprised at, yet actual madness, when one sees it, always gives one a shock


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    Synonyms for "nihilism"

    nihilism nihilistic delusion disorder chaos repudiation refusal denial renunciation

    "nihilism" definitions

    a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake


    the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal


    complete denial of all established authority and institutions