Vem ee Lies Nihilism comes from the Latin word ‘nihil’ which means ‘nothing’. This word describes idea that human existence and universe doesn't have a purpose or meaning. Nihilists generally say that we arrive in this world in some form and give an unjustified reason for our existence which has no logic. These people go through some misshapening in life, which makes them disregard their own beliefs. Consider the beliefs as pillars,once a pillar falls,then people think that all other pillars of life were also not as strong. The entire believe system of these people shatter like dominos . aT hése pegple.end up, becoming Nihilists. mo | This term has been described by a German philosopher Fredrick Neichze .What we callnihilism now, was earlier called skepticism. This particularly denied the fact of believing anything in the universe. They call everything unjustifiable and criticize others. Many philosophers have talked about nihilism. So,we have dealt with several types of nihilism: Moral nihilism: People call every moral or ethical values as baseless, they call anything bad or good as a human construct.They don't call anything better or worse than other. \ \ AEE actually nothing wrong in it. For them every other moral values are something illogical created by other COTM eee ee ae a Ba pet iySome might be wondering about the above picture, for your information ,in above picture,its the protagonist of a really famous Japanese anime called ‘Death Note’. Its one of the best series to show how moral nihilism exist in several forms.Some quotes from characters are as follows which reflect their nihilist personalities: “Look around you, and all you will see are people the world would be better off without.” “For murderers, there is no good or evil. | know that.” “What is right from wrong? What is good from evil? Nobody can truly distinguish between them. Even if there was a god. Now, supposing a fe fole RTM aM Cli Rete RU Rem) e-LLe| think for myself. I'd decide for myself whether his teachings are right or wrong. After all, | am SS a eee MCL ACL convictions as to what I believe is right, and consider them to be righteous.”Other good example of Moral nihilist is Joker from The Dark Knight. Epistemological Nihilism: This defines nothing exists like knowledge and we can’t be sure about something to be true. For example, people consider that after dying one reaches to another dimension. If you ask an epistemological nihilist about it to be true, then they are going to answer it in two ways, either they will call it impossible to find the truth or they will just call the whole ideology as stupid. First one consider a chance of after life but doesn't agree as there is no proof but second one totally denies the question. Cosmic Nihilism: This kind of nihilism talks about nothingness of divine powers. Cosmic nihilist consider that God doesn't exist and human are playing an insignificant role in this endless universe. Existential Nihilism: This kind of nihilism itself considers the life as baseless. As far as we have discussed about types of nihilism, those beliefs were the one which person explores to give theirwere the one which person explores to give their life a meaning. A person become existential nihilist when he accepts all kind of nihilism mentioned above. For the existential nihilists, meaning to life is not a well thought idea. It is is just a result of the engagement of humans in their life which they try to justify. Its said that before essence comes the existence....what does it mean? It means that a person first live his life, then explore and understand himself, then go to the real world and then try explaining his existence to others. Existential nihilists are not able to explain themselves about their own existence. Because earlier they were nobody, now also they are nobody, and they are not trying to be somebody. And they will become what they want them to be. They don't consider meaning to be well thought idea but just some responsibility or commitment. They want us to understand that one day all will die and religion is also an outcome of our fear of (elcolt oR“All ments Seas mttsCoriey sre! ee Coinage nt iaete world, aT] rye nal elma lemme is any reason behind it. Those who say that they have found the meaning of life are either bluffing or they have lost the directions. Whatsoever the thing is ,the truth is that they have been unable to understand the suffering of human world.