NarleyNINa posted:MRR posted:Different people mean different things by that word. You should probably define your terms.
Well, considering Nihilism only has one definition, you should probably figure out what it is before asking someone to define their terms.
That's fucking hilarious. The word has been used in a number of ways over the years to describe various ideologies, belief systems, philosophies, psychological conditions, and political standings. Entire books have been written discussing exactly what Nietzsche meant by the word. When you've looked into it a bit, as I have, you realize that different people use the word in different ways to connote different (yet usually related) ideas. For instance, some would claim that Nietzsche used the term in a pejorative sense to describe the ascetic core of the Christian tradition, while others embrace the label and identify it with a certain form of moral skepticism, and it was also used (primarily in Russia) to describe a certain form of political anarchism.
As an easy example, by my definition/understanding I don't think that the lyrics to "Right Where It Belongs" have anything to do with nihilism as Kyle suggests. They imply questioning one's own values and perspective, but they don't imply that
all perspectives are false or that there are
no values to be found. Really, it doesn't matter whether you think I'm right or Kyle's right - what matters is that there's a discrepancy in how people choose to define the term.
