nihilism

[nahy-uh-liz-uhm, nee-] Show IPA

noun
1.
total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2.
anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3.
total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward theworld at large and including oneself: the powermad nihilismthat marked Hitler's last years.
4.
Philosophy .
a.
an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all realexistence or the possibility of an objective basis for
truth.
b.
nothingness or nonexistence.
5.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) the principles of a Russianrevolutionary group, active in the latter half of
the 19thcentury, holding that existing social and political institutionsmust be destroyed in order to clear the
way for a new stateof society and employing extreme measures, includingterrorism and assassination.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nihilism
Any of various philosophical positions that deny that there are objective foundations for human value
systems. In 19th-century Russia the term was applied to a philosophy of skepticism that opposed all
forms of aestheticism and advocated utilitarianism and scientific rationalism; it was popularized through
the figure of Bazarov in IVAN TURGENEV'sFathers and Sons (1862). Rejecting the social sciences, classical
philosophical systems, and the established social order, nihilism rejected the authority of the state, the
church, and the family. It gradually became associated with political terror and degenerated into a
philosophy of violence
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nihilism
-nothing is true, so nothing is real, so theres no point to anything
-there is not an absolute, inherent, innate truth to the universe. There is only the universe itself.
-Truths are human creation.
-absence of faith in faith.
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