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.
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Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
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Language
English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024