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

  1. 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

  1. 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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