Nihilism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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By the late 20th century, \"nihilism\" had assumed two different castes. In one form, \"nihilist\" is used to characterize the postmodern person, a dehumanized conformist, alienated, indifferent, and baffled, directing psychological energy into hedonistic narcissism or into a deep ressentiment that often explodes in violenc… \"Nihilism\" comes from the Latin nihil, or nothing, which means not anything, that which does not exist. It appears in the verb \"annihilate,\" meaning to bring to nothing, to destroy completely. Early in the nineteenth century, Friedrich Jacobi used the word to negatively characterize transc…
By the late 20th century, \"nihilism\" had assumed two different castes. In one form, \"nihilist\" is used to characterize the postmodern person, a dehumanized conformist, alienated, indifferent, and baffled, directing psychological energy into hedonistic narcissism or into a deep ressentiment that often explodes in violenc…
\"Nihilism\" comes from the Latin nihil, or nothing, which means not anything, that which does not exist. It appears in the verb \"annihilate,\" meaning to bring to nothing, to destroy completely. Early in the nineteenth century, Friedrich Jacobi used the word to negatively characterize transc…
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