nihilism

英 ['naɪ(h)ɪlɪz(ə)m] 美['naɪɪlɪzəm]

GRE畅通词汇

形容词: nihilistic;

nihilism 虚无主义

来自拉丁语nihil,什么都没有，虚无。

nihilism (n.): 1817, "the doctrine of negation" (in reference to religion or morals), from German Nihilismus, from Latin nihil "nothing at all" (see nil), coined by German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819). In philosophy, an extreme form of skepticism (1836). The political sense was first used by German journalist Joseph von Görres (1776-1848). Turgenev used the Russian form of the word (nigilizm) in "Fathers and Children" (1862) and claimed to have invented it. With a capital N-, it refers to the Russian revolutionary anarchism of the period 1860-1917, supposedly so called because "nothing" that then existed found favor in their eyes.

1. Why should a great community like a university be afraid of nihilism?: 为什么像大学这样人才济济的社区要害怕虚无主义呢？

2. The philosophy of those long - hairs leans towards nihilism.: 那些长发嬉皮士的人生观倾向于虚无主义.

3. By contrast, the chilly Californian nihilism of Robinson Jeffers was a refreshing tonic.: 相形之下, 罗宾逊?杰弗斯的加州冷冰冰的虚无主义反而给人以清新兴奋之感.

4. This finale is correlative with his viewpoint of nihilism an d humanitarianism.: 这种结局与周氏的虚无主义和个人主义的人道主义世界观密不可分.

5. Nihilism rejects any objective basis for society and its morality.: 虚无主义拒绝任何客观依据,为社会和道德准则.