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A philosophy advocating 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 kind of ''radical'' nihilism.
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.


The term is credited to {{otto}}, and coming from [[Herculio]]’s soliloquy in {{dsh}}, cited below, even though {{buchstein}} did not, exactly, use it.
The term is credited to {{otto}}, and coming from [[Herculio]]’s soliloquy in {{dsh}}, cited below, even though {{buchstein}} did not, exactly, use it.
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