Anarchy vs. Nihilism

Anarchynoun

(uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.

Anarchynoun

(uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.

Anarchynoun

(countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.

Anarchynoun

Confusion in general; disorder.

Anarchynoun

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

Anarchynoun

Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

Anarchynoun

a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

Anarchy

Anarchy is a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a society or group of people that entirely rejects a set hierarchy.

Nihilismnoun

(philosophy) A philosophical doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life.

Nihilismnoun

(ethics) The rejection of inherent or objective moral principles.

Nihilismnoun

(politics) The rejection of non-rationalized or non-proven assertions in the social and political spheres of society.

Nihilismnoun

A Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.

Nihilismnoun

The understanding that all endeavors are devoid of objective meaning.

Nihilismnoun

The refusal of belief, that belief itself is untenable.

Nihilismnoun

Nothingness; nihility.

Nihilismnoun

The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.

Nihilismnoun

The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

Nihilismnoun

a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake

Nihilismnoun

the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

Nihilismnoun

complete denial of all established authority and institutions

Nihilism

Nihilism (; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a philosophy, or family of views within philosophy, expressing negation (i.e., denial of) towards general aspects of life that are widely accepted within humanity as objectively real, such as knowledge, existence, and the meaning of life. Different nihilist positions hold variously that human values are baseless, that life is meaningless, that knowledge is impossible, or that some set of entities do not exist, are meaningless, or pointless.The study of nihilism may regard it as merely a label that has been applied to various separate philosophies, or as a distinct historical concept arising out of nominalism, skepticism, and philosophical pessimism, as well as possibly out of Christianity itself.