nihilism

nihilism englannista suomeksi

1. nihilismi

0. Substantiivi

1. nihilismi

nihilism englanniksi

1. The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-book),(nb...)|year=1863|page=124|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AM1LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA124|oclc=1051563331|passage=This classification should have led to the discovery and study of remedies which act specifically upon the various textures and tissues of the body, such as the cellular, serous, mucous, parenchymatous, fibrous, gelatinous, &c., but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities(sic) of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the ''nihilisms'' of the German.

3. (RQ:Conrad Secret Agent)

4. (RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)

5. (quote-book)’s album ''(w)'' (1978)|editors=Dave Marsh; John Swenson|title=Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Record Guide:(nb...)|edition=2nd|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=(w)/Stone|Rolling Stone Press|year=1983|page=560|isbn=978-0-394-72107-1|passage=The band members sweat hard enough to earn their pretensions, and maybe even their nihilism.

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7. The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless ''(sense 1)''.

8. (quote-journal)|month=September|year=1882|volume=VI (Sixth Series)|page=692|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=98MRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA692|oclc=5640798|passage=The dire portent of Nihilism, which some persons regard as little more than an extreme protest against absolutism in Government, ... is an execrable conspiracy against all religion and morality.

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10. The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society.

11. A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist.

12. (alternative case form of)

13. (RQ:Turgenev Fathers and Sons)

14. A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.

(antonyms)

15. (quote-book)|year=1839|pages=42–43|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pT1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43|oclc=15089921|passage=This great metaphysician &91;(w)&93; considered, our ideas were derived from sensation and reflection; and preserved the distinction between these two sources of knowledge with great care; but by a perversion of his theory, his followers reduced them to sensation alone;—which by a necessary gradation leads to materialism, atheism and nihilism.

16. (quote-book);(nb...)|year=1872|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=4AkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6|oclc=230731803|passage=This view may be styled Religious Nihilism. It affirms that Theism, or faith in an Almighty and All-wise Creator, Pantheism, and Atheism, are alike mere guesses in the dark, and that nothing is or can be known of that mysterious Something, which is the origin of the universe.

17. (quote-book)|year=1894|volume=VII (NEW–PES)|page=91|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=84NPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91|column=2|oclc=3813805|passage=Nihilism is the result of continued and extreme philosophical ''scepticism'' ... Among the first developments of Greek philosophy we find the nihilism of Georgias, one of the Sophists, and a contemporary of (w). He taught (1) that nothing exists; for if anything were, its being must be either derived or eternal; but it cannot have been derived, whether from the existent or from the non-existent (according to the Eleatics); nor can it be eternal, for then it must be infinite; but the infinite is nowhere, since it can neither be in itself nor in anything else, and what is nowhere is not.

18. Something that is regarded as meaningless.

19. (quote-journal)|editors=George A. Blanchard; Franklin P. Wood; John K. Lord|newspaper=The Dartmouth|location=Hanover, N.H.|publisher=Students of (w);(nb...)|month=April|year=1868|volume=II|issue=IV|page=134|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-ASAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA134|issn=0199-9931|oclc=191224707|passage=At one fell swoop such persons would away with the idle songs of the poets, away with our heroes in fiction, away too with the examples left us in the lives of great men. For it substantially amounts to this; if they have no influence in moulding thought and directing action, they are in the economy of intellect mere nihilisms, dead forces, and when read or studied can of themselves be the occasion of neither good nor evil.

20. (quote-journal)&93; has honored beauty and justness, and she has chronicled how they were almost extinguished in the most devastatingly genocidal century to date. Without her, the dead Iraqi child on al-Jazeera would be just one of many, a signpost pointing toward the twin nihilisms of inevitability and ignorance.

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