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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of nihilism. A historical overview of perspectives on nihilism, ending with the answer of existentialism is provided. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the pursuit of wisdom or understanding, but there is no guarantee, of course, that understanding necessarily leads to an affirmation of meaning. Nihilism is, fundamentally speaking, the idea that there
is, in fact, no inherent meaning or value in the experience of human life. Taken to logical conclusions, then, nihilism can be used as a means to reject the basis
for ethical or moral prescriptions, as well as to undermine a host of other metaphysical or epistemological assumptions. As such, it can be a difficult concept to accept, and has
frequently been roundly rejected by philosophers who maintain that meaning and value can be found in the world. The most successful such rejections, however, address nihilism on its own terms,
asking the question of why value must be inherent in life, rather than externally manufactured within the human context. Being such a complex idea that concerns the very fundamentals of
philosophy, nihilism is not without a great deal of precedent. Indeed, the first stirrings of nihilism might be found in the moral skepticism of Plato (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). Moral skepticism is
not a theory in and of itself, but rather a broad viewpoint which involves a denial of moral truth or moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those
moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one might make the claim that robbery is wrong because the Christian Bible condemns the act; however, a moral skeptic might attack
this idea by questioning the validity of the Bible as an instrument from which to derive moral truths. Plato handles the idea of moral skepticism in his "Republic" through the
character of Thrasymachus, who advocates the viewpoint that the "justice" of Athenian society is inconsistent and determined entirely by "the advantage of the stronger" rather than deriving from some consistent,
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