Nihilism vs Apatheism - What's the difference?
nihilism | apatheism |
(philosophy) A philosophical doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life.
(ethics) The rejection of inherent or objective moral principles.
(politics) The rejection of non-rationalized or non-proven assertions in the social and political spheres of society.
(politics, historical) A Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.
The belief that all endeavors are ultimately futile and devoid of meaning.
Contradiction (not always deliberate) between behavior and espoused principle, to such a degree that all possible espoused principle is voided.
The deliberate refusal of belief, to the point that belief itself is rejected as untenable.
(religion) Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.
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English terms with alpha privatives
As nouns the difference between nihilism and apatheism
is that nihilism is a philosophical doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life while apatheism is apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.nihilism
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Noun
- "...the band members sweat hard enough to earn their pretensions, and maybe even their nihilism " (rock critic Dave Marsh, reviewing the band XTC's album Go )
Derived terms
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* (belief that all endeavours are void ) fatalismExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ismapatheism
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(apatheism)Noun
(-)Let It Be," The Atlantic (US), May (retrieved 26 Sep 2010):
- [A]patheism is an attitude, not a belief system, and the over-riding fact is that these people are relaxed about religion.
