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| The wilful obliteration of all cultural, religious and moral principles, in the belief that the single moral truth is that life is meaningless, and that any attempt to make sense of it is therefore sacrilege.
| | A philosophy advocating not just the nihilistic rejection of all cultural, religious and moral principles but their wilful obliteration, in the belief that there is but a single moral truth: that life is meaningless, and that therefore any attempt to make sense of it, or reduce it to a kind of moral or political framework, is a sacrilege. In this way some philosophers regard annihilism as a kind of ''radical'' nihilism. |
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| {{Quote| | | The term is credited to {{otto}}, and coming from [[Herculio]]’s soliloquy in {{dsh}}, cited below, even though {{buchstein}} did not, exactly, use it. |
| EDMUND: This is the excellent foppery of man, <br>
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| To defile the random stars with base and mortal patterns: <br>
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| To lay the spoils of canny fortune at the altar of the state — <br>
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| Yet pin guilt for our disasters upon the untam’d cosmic wilds. <br>
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| How now! O blasphemy!<br>
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| Aye so: would we be brutes but for our philosophy <br>
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| And not because of’t? <br>
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| Would there be villainy but for kindly guiding hands <br>
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| And not despite them? <br>
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| We are but fools, knaves, and blighters: Heav’n compels it. <br>
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| Heav’n? ''Real'' heaven: th’ unvarnish’d cosmos in its native state: <br>
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| Not some twee artisanal paradise of tiny minds. Unbounded space <br>
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| Which moves by rules no mortal mind can fathom. <br>
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| So, Nature: rage and blow, and crack your leathery cheeks! <br>
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| Grind, you plates of Tecton! Shift and grate! <br>
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| Eradicate the rathaus! Annihilate our spindly-buttress’d spires! <br>
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| Weave your snaking lava through our mealy testaments! <br>
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| Singe those pompous beards within whose peppered whiskers
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| Our collected, piffling, wisdom nests! <br>
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| :—{{dsh}} }}
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| | *[[Finance fiction]] |
| | *{{otto}} |
| | *{{dsh}} |