NIHILISM

An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not u sually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, an ideolo gy of nothing. Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs w e have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to dist inguish wh...[Read more]