strategy
Nihilism
Description:
Rejecting all ideologies, morality and behavioural norms that are part of the establishment system. Context:
Nihilism refers specifically to the generation of Russian precursors of the communist revolution who, in the 1860s, sought a new social ideology. The term was first coined to describe what Karl Marx stigmatized as the "sterile negation" of the Prussian revolutionaries of the 1840s. Claim:
Nihilism is not a coherent worldview by itself, but loosens ties with the existing social options and is the basic posture without which a new direction cannot be discerned. Counter Claim:
Nihilism is a self-destructive dead end, leading only to negativism about whatever successive social alternatives arise to the existing ones. Facilitated by:
Being an atheist Values:
Nihilism Subjects:
Type Classification:
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