Concept in Definition ABC

The philosophical current known as nihilism is one that is based on the presumption that nothing can be known, understood or known since life does not have any meaning to decipher. This implies that the human being is not subject to values, beliefs or parameters of any higher entity since, in any case, you cannot know it for sure.

The term nihilism comes from Latin, a language in which nihil it means nothing'. In this way, nihilism could be understood as the negation of everything that exists or, in other words, nothingness. One of the most important and central elements of this philosophical current is precisely the denial of various aspects of human life, and even of life itself. For nihilists, life has no meaning worth knowing, interpreting, or deciphering, and neither does life. moral, the religion, political forms, etc.

Nihilism is a phenomenon that emerged mainly in the 19th century from the works of different authors, among which Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger are the most recognized. Each of them made a

interpretationdifferent of this kind of thought but in other words we can say that the three of them worked on life and the lack of meaning it has in a world as complex as the postmodern world. Thus, for nihilist authors, there is nothing that human beings can do to revalue their identity, their peculiarities, their interests or fears can be useful since life has lost all meaning (or never had it) and therefore it is impossible to know or know anything respect her. In many sensesNihilism relates to dark and meaningless ways of understanding human existence on Earth.

Topics in Nihilism