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Stegenga, Jacob (2018). Medical Nihilism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p.1. ISBN 978-0-19-874704-8. Scanlan, James P. (1999). "The Case against Rational Egoism in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground". Journal of the History of Ideas. University of Pennsylvania Press. 60 (3): 553–554. doi: 10.2307/3654018. JSTOR 3654018. Crosby, Donald A. (1998). "Nihilism". Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-N037-1. ISBN 9780415250696. Political nihilism calls for the complete destruction of existing political institutions, along with their supporting outlooks and social structures, but has no positive message of what should be put in their place.

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The concept of nihilism was discussed by the Buddha (563 B.C. to 483 B.C.), as recorded in the Theravada and Mahayana Tripiṭaka. [35] The Tripiṭaka, originally written in Pali, refers to nihilism as natthikavāda and the nihilist view as micchādiṭṭhi. [36] Various sutras within it describe a multiplicity of views held by different sects of ascetics while the Buddha was alive, some of which were viewed by him to be morally nihilistic. In the "Doctrine of Nihilism" in the Apannaka Sutta, the Buddha describes moral nihilists as holding the following views: [37] Nihilism". Encyclopædia Britannica. In Russian literature, nihilism was probably first used by N.I. Nadezhdin, in an 1829 article in the Messenger of Europe, in which he applied it to Aleksandr Pushkin. Nadezhdin, as did V.V. Bervi in 1858, equated nihilism with skepticism. Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, a well-known conservative journalist who interpreted nihilism as synonymous with revolution, presented it as a social menace because of its negation of all moral principles. The Government took up the word, and used nihilism to stigmatize all revolutionary, and ultra democratic and socialistic tendencies; and we have seen it play its part in the recent investigations into the attempted assassination of the Emperor. Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-31 . Retrieved 2015-11-03.

Fathers and Sons". Novels for Students . Retrieved August 11, 2020– via Encyclopedia.com. When he returned to Saint Petersburg in 1862 on the same day that young radicals—calling themselves "nihilists"—were setting fire to buildings. There is no one in the world who, through direct knowledge, can confirm that beings are reborn into this world or into another world. It has been over a century now since Nietzsche explored nihilism and its implications for civilization. As he predicted, nihilism’s impact on the culture and values of the 20th century has been pervasive, its apocalyptic tenor spawning a mood of gloom and a good deal of anxiety, anger, and terror. Interestingly, Nietzsche himself, a radical skeptic preoccupied with language, knowledge, and truth, anticipated many of the themes of postmodernity. It’s helpful to note, then, that he believed we could–at a terrible price–eventually work through nihilism. If we survived the process of destroying all interpretations of the world, we could then perhaps discover the correct course for humankind: Adamowicz, E.; Robertson, E. (2012). Dada and Beyond, Volume 2: Dada I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism’s] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength. It is possible. . . . ( Complete Works Vol. 13) Author Information

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Metaphysical nihilism is the position that concrete objects and physical constructs might not exist in the possible world, or that, even if there exist possible worlds that contain some concrete objects, there is at least one that contains only abstract objects. From the 20th century, nihilism has encompassed a range of positions within various fields of philosophy. Each of these, as the Encyclopædia Britannica states, "denied the existence of genuine moral truths or values, rejected the possibility of knowledge or communication, and asserted the ultimate meaninglessness or purposelessness of life or of the universe." [99]nihilism". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. September 2003. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Notice that what matters for this way of being justified is not whether the person actually bases the moral belief on an occurrent inference but only whether the person is able to infer that moral belief. This ability is usually understood to be present when the person has other beliefs that fit into a structure that the person could use to infer the moral belief. uncountable , psychiatry ) A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist. a b Pasanno, Ajahn; Amaro, Ajahn (October 2009). "Knowing, Emptiness and the Radiant Mind" (PDF). Forest Sangha Newsletter (88): 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 June 2018 . Retrieved 24 June 2019.

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whether there is an external world. In contrast, this form of argument is not subject to such objections when it is applied to morality, because some people really donihilism". The American Heritage Medical Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2008. p.363. ISBN 978-0-618-94725-6. Archived from the original on 2016-09-11 . Retrieved 2016-01-27.

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a b c Veit, Walter (2018). "Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Philosophical Problem". Journal of Camus Studies: 211–236. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26965.24804.nihilism, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2003; “ nihilism, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. Nihilism ( / ˈ n aɪ( h) ɪ l ɪ z əm, ˈ n iː-/; from Latin nihil'nothing') is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, [1] [2] such as knowledge, morality, or meaning. [3] [4] The term was popularized by Ivan Turgenev and more specifically by his character Bazarov in the novel Fathers and Sons. Cosmic nihilism is the position that reality or the cosmos is either wholly or significantly unintelligible and that it provides no foundation for human aims and principles. [3] Particularly, it may regard the cosmos as distinctly hostile or indifferent to humanity. [100] It is often related to both epistemological and existential nihilism, as well as cosmicism.