(March 6, 2015 at 2:09 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: That's fair. I bet there are a fair amount of angsty teenagers running the internet around calling them nihilists and talking about how they have no morals and quoting Friedrich Nietzsche. For the sake of this argument lets just go with "life and everything else doesn't matter.'
The problem with this seems to be how meaning is affected in respect to time. I think it is entirely possible for something that is meaningless in the long term to have short term value. This definition of nihilism doesn't recognize that meaning is contingent upon the time-frame which it exists within.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
