Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile

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The term "nihilism" was actually popularized in 1862 by Ivan Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons, whose hero, Bazarov, was a nihilist and recruited several followers to the philosophy. According to him, the loss of higher metaphysical values that exist in contrast to the base reality of the world, or merely human ideas, gives rise to the idea that all human ideas are therefore valueless. Russian nihilism did not imply, as one might expect from a purely semantic viewpoint, a universal "negation" of ethical normativity, the foundations of knowledge or the meaningfulness of human existence. One person can head a rebellion, but one person cannot head this levelling process, for that would make him a leader and he would avoid being levelled. Ajahn Amaro illustrates this by retelling the story of a Buddhist monk, Ajahn Sumedho, who in his early years took a nihilistic approach to Nirvana.

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Though the concept has been present in various forms throughout history, the term itself was first coined in the 19th century by Russian author Ivan Turgenev in his novel, Fathers and Sons.They must be able of guiding us morally just by the fact of being in some clear awareness of their truth.

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She manifests her nihilism by creating a black hole-like " everything bagel" in which she will destroy herself and the rest of the multiverse.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.

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When an individual has given up craving and the conceit of 'I am' their mind is liberated, they no longer come into any state of ' being' and are no longer born again. Despite Turgenev's own anti-nihilistic leanings, many of his readers likewise took up the name of nihilist, thus ascribing the Russian nihilist movement its name. This interpretation of existence must be based on resolution: The resolution with which humans see and perceive the "improper parts" of the world is not an objective fact of reality, but is rather an implicit trait that can only be qualitatively explored and expressed.

The nihilist characters of the novel define themselves as those who "deny everything", who do "not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in", and who regard "at the present time, negation is the most useful of all". Rather, only basic building blocks without parts exist, and thus the world we see and experience, full of objects with parts, is a product of human misperception (i.