nihilism
虚无主义,虚拟主义
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Definitions
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- : total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- : anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
- : total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
- : Philosophy. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.nothingness or nonexistence.
- : the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
- : annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.
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Examples
Yes, this sounds scary, but it doesn’t mean you should embrace full-on nihilism or stop sending nudes altogether.
Two new books—Under the Sky We Make, by Kimberly Nicholas, and Overheated, by Kate Aronoff—provide an antidote to climate nihilism.
The journalist Malcolm Gladwell, on his podcast, “Revisionist History,” devoted a recent episode to his theory of “hiring nihilism.”
They often seem on the brink of nihilism before we even cover the syllabus.
I think with that generation, so many of their hopes have been so dashed that nihilism is really a natural response.
It’s arguably the best film of the ‘90s—a postmodern pop culture smorgasbord awash in nihilism and dripping with retro cool.
Republican leaders have no alternative but to join the president in rejecting such nihilism.
To understand better the nihilism of Thiessen's thinking, I must now quote his column at greater length.
Over the past four years, Republicans have suffered from a combination of tactical radicalism joined to strategic nihilism.
Then when the authorities thought Nihilism was stamped out by wholesale severity the matter assumed another phase.
But his liberalism is not in the least akin to Nihilism or Anarchism.
With therapeutic nihilism or skepticism of the power of drugs I have no sympathy.
Koscheleff, writing in 1874, gives a similar explanation of nihilism.
This is the only view an American, the child of 1620 and 1776, can take of Nihilism.