Shadee Elmasry – Nihilism Explained
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The speaker discusses the concept of "naught" and how it relates to the idea that everything is just a transactional thing. They use examples such as snooker balls and the idea that ethics is meaningless, to illustrate their point. The speaker also mentions "naught" meaningless in various ways, including morality and truth, but does not relate to actual meaning.
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nihilism focuses the idea that life is meaningless, that there's
no purpose or function behind anything. And personally, I feel
that atheism sort of leads to that this idea that, you know, if there
is no Creator of everything at bottom, if you take like a
naturalistic perspective, if it is just snooker balls hitting snooker
balls, there can't be purpose to these things, because everything
sort of transpired by accident or randomly. And if that is the case,
and the universe doesn't have any meaning, then by greater reason,
every single part of that universe would also not have any meaning or
purpose, correct. Yeah. And so you've got like the sort of
cosmological nihilism which is the grand one, everything, the
existential nihilism, which is the sort of the individual one, and
then you've got moral nihilism or every theory, the idea that ethics
is meaningless or ethical discussions, morality is
meaningless. There is no such thing as good or evil. And then
you've got epistemological nihilism, which is no such thing
as truth or you can't attain true knowledge or knowledge at all.