Nihilism

thumb|alt=Diagram with the texts "nihilism", "meaning", "morality", and "knowledge", together with arrows|Different forms of nihilism reject distinct aspects of existence, such as a higher meaning, morality, and knowledge. Nihilism is a family of philosophical views that question the existence of any objectively meaningful purpose, moral value, truth, or knowledge. Nihilistic views span several branches of philosophy, including ethics, value theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. Nihilism is also described as a broad cultural phenomenon or historical movement that pervades modernity in the Wes

thumb|200px|right|Sisyphus, the symbol of the absurdity of existence, painting by [[Franz Stuck (1920)]]

statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

philosophical concept proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche

Russian movement in the 1860s that rejected all authorities

antithesis to the Übermensch in Nietzschean philosophy

phraseme

meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral

Doomer is a 21st century neologism for an online subculture of individuals who share extremely pessimistic, nihilist or fatalistic views about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, democratic backsliding, economic collapse, and runaway artificial intelligence. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to societal collapse, or even worse, human extinction. The terms doomer and doomerism arose primarily on social media and later experienced a semantic change, becoming Internet slang for pessimism while overlapping w

philosophical theory

manifestation of nothingness

philosophical thesis

Negative attitude toward law

Russian literary society

1920 poem written by Sara Teasdale

View that medical treatment is futile

several philosophical paradoxes

term used by the Chinese Communist Party to refer to hisorical viewpoints critical of its history

Philosophical Sub-Viewpoint of Nihilism