(February 27, 2013 at 7:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: One of the greatest minds in philosophy, Nietzsche, was a nihilist and he is the model I use for defining nihilism.
If Nietzsche is the basis for your model of nihilism, then you should learn atleast as much about his position as I can from a cursory reading of wikipedia. He saw nihilism not as a philosophy but as a stage in humanity's development. He saw that the rejection of the concept of god - which many people did take as the basis for objective meaning and purpose of life and of morality - would lead to nihilism, i.e. destruction of all those values and ideals. He saw it as a necessary consequence, but one to be used as a stepping stone for humanity to discover the true or correct foundations upon which they should build their values. That does not sound like a nihilist as you'd describe it.
