Shadee Elmasry – Nihilism Explained

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.