7 Basic Worldview Questions
The Seven Basic Worldview Questions I answered last week would fall greatly in comparison to how a nihilist would believe or answer them. My belief system is the opposite of that of Nihilism. It saddens me how people could believe the things listed in The Universe Next Door.
These are the three questions I have chosen to select for my response through the mindset of a nihilist. I will also include the strengths and weaknesses of the nihilist answers.
1) What is a human being? A nihilist believes human beings are just machines, basically dead things. They think they are a complicated piece of machinery without a piece of self, without a sense of ego that cannot act on free will, the cosmos controls them, as explained by Sire (2009, p.100). …show more content…
In Nihilism, anything goes. If it feels good, do it. As Sire (2009, p.113) explains, “If the universe is meaningless and a person cannot know and nothing is immoral, any course of action is open.” They have no clue.
Strength: They can do whatever they want. They have no one to answer to. Basically, they do not know if something is immoral or wrong, thus, how can it be right or wrong?!
Weakness: Their sense of thinking is limited and keeps them contradicting themselves all the time. “Nihilists are indeed boxed in.” (Sire 2009 p.113)
3) What is the meaning of human history? Nothingness, they believe in nothing, there is no meaning, and a couple went crazy. Nietzsche later went to an insane asylum and Hemingway committed suicide.
Strength: “Nihilism is a foggy bottomland through which we modern people must pass if we are to build a life in Western culture.” (Sire p.116) This sums it up, It makes no sense to us, but we must know it to better our culture and grow from this madness called Nihilism.
Weakness: Nihilism causes extreme psychological problems in the past and could cause more in the future if nihilist continues with this way of living and value system. All it does is cause mayhem and
These are the three questions I have chosen to select for my response through the mindset of a nihilist. I will also include the strengths and weaknesses of the nihilist answers.
1) What is a human being? A nihilist believes human beings are just machines, basically dead things. They think they are a complicated piece of machinery without a piece of self, without a sense of ego that cannot act on free will, the cosmos controls them, as explained by Sire (2009, p.100). …show more content…
In Nihilism, anything goes. If it feels good, do it. As Sire (2009, p.113) explains, “If the universe is meaningless and a person cannot know and nothing is immoral, any course of action is open.” They have no clue.
Strength: They can do whatever they want. They have no one to answer to. Basically, they do not know if something is immoral or wrong, thus, how can it be right or wrong?!
Weakness: Their sense of thinking is limited and keeps them contradicting themselves all the time. “Nihilists are indeed boxed in.” (Sire 2009 p.113)
3) What is the meaning of human history? Nothingness, they believe in nothing, there is no meaning, and a couple went crazy. Nietzsche later went to an insane asylum and Hemingway committed suicide.
Strength: “Nihilism is a foggy bottomland through which we modern people must pass if we are to build a life in Western culture.” (Sire p.116) This sums it up, It makes no sense to us, but we must know it to better our culture and grow from this madness called Nihilism.
Weakness: Nihilism causes extreme psychological problems in the past and could cause more in the future if nihilist continues with this way of living and value system. All it does is cause mayhem and