RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 23, 2023 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2023 at 11:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Getting warmer with that last one. Trouble is that explicitly rejects existentialism and an absurdist isn't bound to the claim. The trouble with the last one in itself is the same general inconsistency that nietzsche pointed out. Our inability -to be- nihilists.
The thing that differentiates a nihilist from the other two isn't what they don't believe in, but what they do. Specifically -that- the other two can...coherently, believe in anything at all. Lets try this in terms of pathos. In existentialism, there is meaning, and pathos is the meaning maker. In absurdism, it is the futility of pathos that gives the world it's meaning, which is absurd. In nihilism, there isn't supposed to be any pathos at all.
When I say these things I only mean existentialism/absurdism/nihilism as generally described. Whatever it is that you believe, which could easily be a combination of things and not, strictly speaking, nihilism... may find the distinctions trivial.
(in my experience, obviously an anecdote, "nihilists" are often existentialists and error theorists, this is what they seem to mean when they use the term. )
The thing that differentiates a nihilist from the other two isn't what they don't believe in, but what they do. Specifically -that- the other two can...coherently, believe in anything at all. Lets try this in terms of pathos. In existentialism, there is meaning, and pathos is the meaning maker. In absurdism, it is the futility of pathos that gives the world it's meaning, which is absurd. In nihilism, there isn't supposed to be any pathos at all.
When I say these things I only mean existentialism/absurdism/nihilism as generally described. Whatever it is that you believe, which could easily be a combination of things and not, strictly speaking, nihilism... may find the distinctions trivial.
(in my experience, obviously an anecdote, "nihilists" are often existentialists and error theorists, this is what they seem to mean when they use the term. )
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