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NIHILISM
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Three Nihilisms, At least

All these reflections revolve around three principal ways of thinking about nihilism that filigree through the pages that follow. In the first place “nihilism” can be understood in a purely metaphysical sense, in which case it means that no fundamental distinction can be seen between being and nothingness. In this case, which might be referred to as “ontological,” (ಮೂಲತತ್ತ್ವ ವಿಚಾರದ) nihilism consists in maintaining that, from a certain point of view, nothingness “equals” being, that it not opposed to it in any irreducible or insurmountable manner. Since a perspective allows two statements, which at first appear contradictory, to be used interchangeably: (1) there is only nothingness behind appearances and the sheen of the images that make up the world; and (2) beyond the individual and finite events that we are given to experience, there is only Absolute, pure Being, the infinite without no determinate characteristics.

According to a second meaning, nihilism can be an active refusal in opposition to life, a “no” hurled out in the face of everything that perpetuates existence, that proliferates existence, that allows existence to cling so tightly to its own presence. This choice of nothingness proclaims its superiority over being. It is better that life deny itself, be snuffed out, erased, obliterated, and forever dissolved, for it could never manage to be either happy or lasting peaceful. Existence is nothing more than a painful decoy. Finding how, definitively , to put an end to it is the only justification for intelligence. This pessimistic nihilism appears to absorb everything. Despite everything, it has its limits. As a matter of fact, it recognizes optimism as its opposite. The affirmation of a “yes” to life is the pole that stands in contradiction to its lucidity. Blind aspiration to happiness and its repetition is only an illusion, in the eyes of a pessimist, but it does have its own internal consistency. This nihilism thus allows the opposition between true and false to remain in existence.

One last possible meaning manages to annul this antagonism. Nihilism in this final case, no longer denotes a refusal of life, nor does it deny what positive values may be attributed to the world. It is, in fact, the existence of a world of values that, after all, constitutes nihilism. Any afterworld is an artificial paradise, and the very idea of truth is a harmful phantasmagoria. It is no longer a question of maintaining that life is worth nothing, or that everything is worthwhile, but rather of maintaining that nothing could have any determined value, for reasons that are outside the world of independent of it. From this point of view, nihilism exists from a moment that one places on cruel and felicitous reality a judgment that is attempting to impose an external law, from the moment that one sets the world such as it is in opposition to the preferable order of what ought to be. ~ page 22

THE CULT OF NOTHINGNESS
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