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Nietzsche and Nihilism – A Warning to the West

Academy of Ideas

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Nihilism is the conviction that there is no meaning to life. To be a nihilist is to flirt with despair in the sentiment that life is not worth living, says Friedrich Nietzsche. The West has long been under the spell of worldviews predicated on the existence of what he called a true world.

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