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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.

In 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism.” Nietzsche, The Will to Power Nihilism is the conviction that there is no meaning to life, that the world is inhospitable to […]

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