i'm lookin for some books written by nihilist. I know of Nietzsche of course because he's my favorite philosopher. If you know any please make a list. I'd appreciate it. Joker
I don't know of any but I am also very interested... I've been looking to grab a new philosophy book and I wasn't sure what... I'm looking for something nihilistic or similar
Arthur Schopenhauer, He was Nietzsche's main influence. Nietzsche agreed with everything Schopenhauer observed except the Nihilistic conclusion. Nietzsche spent the most productive part of his life trying to give Schopenhauer's Nihilistic observations a more positive spin. Well, at least Nietzsche thought his spin was positive.
I'd have to disagree, respectfully. Even though, granted, many Nihilists tend to feel that way about existence, that's more of a matter of their own take on reality, than what defines nihilism. Because saying existence is useless and senseless implies knowing its worth, and that's anti-nihilism. Dirty hypocrites. Nihilism, essentially, is just a lack of leap of faiths, it's an "extreme" form of skepticism, but I say it's real skepticism. We really know nothing about ourselves and the universe, we don't even know if we 'know'- that is to say, we don't actually know if we exist, we think we know- but we don't, and anyone that says otherwise is blowing a lot of smoke out their ass, whether they know it or not. It denies all forms of existence, and tends to either liberate or imprison its victims - although both in states of desperation.
Nihilism is something i disagree with. it also annoy me that many nilists call themselves anarchists. It's like stalinists calling themselves troskyists.
Fathers & Sons by [size=-1]Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev primarily deals with (the then new-fangled) nihilist movement in Russia & how effects the generation gap. It's fiction, though, so it doesn't exactly provide an outright discussion of nihilism. Rather, it's openly displayed thought the protagonist's actions/dialogue. [/size]
Here's a little something about the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer who is often considered the quintesential Nihilist Schopenhauer concludes in The World as Will and Representation that WE create the violent state of nature, for he maintains that the individuation that the human being imposes upon things, is imposed upon a blind striving energy that, once it becomes individuated and objectified, turns against itself, consumes itself, and does violence to itself. His paradigm image is of the bulldog-ant of Australia, which when cut in half, struggles in a battle to the death between its head and tail. Our very quest for scientific and practical knowledge creates a world that feasts upon itself.
i was going to recommend this, i just recently read it and it's really a great book... kinda funny and a little satirical in my eyes. he makes fun of a lot of ppl's ideas. it's good
