Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile

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However, holding nihilism does not necessarily imply that one should give up using moral or ethical language; some nihilists contend that it remains a useful tool. Derridean deconstructionists argue that this approach rather frees texts, individuals or organizations from a restrictive truth, and that deconstruction opens up the possibility of other ways of being. Given the importance of Nietzsche's contribution to the topic of nihilism, Heidegger's influential interpretation of Nietzsche is important for the historical development of the term nihilism. As with the original American historicists, they accept only historical references and deny all extrahistorical references, including those implicit in idealism and positivism.

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Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, a well-known conservative journalist who interpreted nihilism as synonymous with revolution, presented it as a social menace because of its negation of all moral principles. Regarding life within the universe, existential nihilists believe that human life is insignificant and without purpose. Because Christianity was an interpretation that posited itself as the interpretation, Nietzsche states that this dissolution leads beyond skepticism to a distrust of all meaning.

Fisher, “John Zizioulas: The Correlation of Divine and Human Personhood”, in Human Significance in Theology and the Natural Sciences: An Ecumenical Perspective with Reference to Pannenberg, Rahner, and Zizioulas (Princeton Theological Monograph Series), Eugene, Or.

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In his Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being (1944–46), [86] Heidegger tries to understand Nietzsche's nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values. Heidegger also praises Jünger for defending Nietzsche against a too biological or anthropological reading during the Nazi era. Nihilism ( / ˈ n aɪ( h) ɪ l ɪ z əm, ˈ n iː-/; from Latin nihil'nothing') is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, [1] [2] such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

He believed that the only way to work through these two things was through acceptance of the absurdity of reality and living life through faith (or having the courage to try to make a meaningful existence). While Friedrich Jacobi was the first to use the term within the philosophical realm, it wouldn’t garner much attention until its use in the 1862 book Fathers and Sons by Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev. Each individual can in his little circle participate in this levelling, but it is an abstract process, and levelling is abstraction conquering individuality.

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Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, Jacobi an Fichte (1799/1816), German Text (1799/1816), Appendix with Jacobi's and Fichte's complementary Texts, critical Apparatus, Commentary, and Italian Translation, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples 2011, ISBN 978-88-905957-5-2. Under Nietzsche's profound influence, the term was then further treated within French philosophy and continental philosophy more broadly, while the influence of nihilism in Russia arguably continued well into the Soviet era. The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism. He was a Danish theologian who would later become regarded as the “Father of Existentialism” by many academics.The term nihilism emerged in several places in Europe during the 18th century, [7] notably in the German form Nihilismus, [20] though was also in use during the Middle Ages to denote certain forms of heresy. This observation stems in part from Nietzsche's perspectivism, or his notion that "knowledge" is always by someone of some thing: it is always bound by perspective, and it is never mere fact. Nietzsche distinguishes a morality that is strong or healthy, meaning that the person in question is aware that he constructs it himself, from weak morality, where the interpretation is projected on to something external. Goetz, “Postliberal Theology and the Camel’s Nose”, in Rebecca Clancy, Larry Mattera, editors, Clear and Definite Words, Eugene, Or. In the period surrounding the French Revolution, the term was also a pejorative for certain value-destructive trends of modernity, namely the negation of Christianity and European tradition in general.