what are the problems with nihilsim.....here are my arguements against it.....?

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i agree with a good amount of what nihilism says. but i am more of an existentialist.

this is what nihilism says:

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy

MY ARGUEMENT: how can nothing be known or communicated? because the nihilist beleives that nothing can be known, even though he knows that nothing can be known. so you have a contradiction. how can you know not being able to know?

nihilism also beleives that there is no meaning to life. however while there is no objective meaning to life, there is however a subjective meaning. so then how can there be no meaning if you give it a meaning?

personaly, i tihnk nihilism is self contradictory and a cop out, out of life further arguement and life.

Answer 1

The problem with nihilism as with all skeptical philosophies is their extreme ego-centrism. Nihilism is almost solipsist in its presentation denying everything. I just finished an answer in which I argued that solipsism was non existent like your argument above

I disagree with cord. There is a meaning to life which has been staring you in the face all the time and it is proved to you every morning when you awaken. THE MEANING OF LIFE IS LIFE!! It is renewed every morning from a state like unto death and you accept that. You have probably not ever awakened (like I have) with the depressed agonized thought that you really didn't want to awaken. Those are the thoughts of a person in a suicidal depression.

That even Nietzsche didn't commit suicide is evidence to me that even he had found some meaning in the gift of life as do all modern day nihilists. It s nothing but an extreme, but not yet suicidal, form of protest.

Answer 2

I'm not a nilihist.. but it holds the same validity of your philosophy.

I mean, you believe that life has some inherent meaning, even though that is impossible to prove. The only "meaning" to anyone's life is probably the need to reproduce, but then there are homosexuals and asexual people (genetic/mental problem?), so with the argument that the meaning of life is to reproduce - gay/asexual people have no meaning to life.

Basically, this leaves the position that since it can never be known if life has any meaning; why is there a need to think that it does have meaning? The only thing that humans have to believe in a "life meaning" is their own ideas and beliefs, which cannot be proven.

Also, nihilism isn't a "cop-out", because there is nothing to cop out of... I mean, what is a nihilist copping out of - studying the meaning of life? (There is nothing to study since there is absolutely zero evidence to a meaning in life.)

Basically, all you do is come on the planet for so many years, die, and then you're dirt. You can make your life meaningful, but in the end - what you did doesn't matter in cosmological terms. There is nothing special about humans; humans are equalivant to mostiqutos or fleas in the eyes of the universe. I mean, even a solar system is a flea/mosquito in terms of universial time... and solar systems last billions of years... humans last what, 70ish years, 127 (record) max?

Answer 3

Some of the problems related to nihilism might be its impact on the quality of one's life and one's relationships, and that a nihilistic worldview tends toward reductionism.

Answer 4

You only have to love a child to argue against it. Or appreciate the beauty of nature... or witness the selflessness of one who risks their lives to save another, or have ever cared for anyone or anything...

I would say nihilism is the philosophy of a sociopath.