nihilism

英 ['na?(h)?l?z(?)m] 美['na??l?z?m]

GRE暢通詞匯

形容詞:?nihilistic;

nihilism 虛無主義

來自拉丁語nihil,什么都沒有，虛無。

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 G?rres (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?: 為什么像大學這樣人才濟濟的社區要害怕虛無主義呢？

2. The philosophy of those long - hairs leans towards nihilism.: 那些長發嬉皮士的人生觀傾向于虛無主義.

3. By contrast, the chilly Californian nihilism of Robinson Jeffers was a refreshing tonic.: 相形之下, 羅賓遜?杰弗斯的加州冷冰冰的虛無主義反而給人以清新興奮之感.

4. This finale is correlative with his viewpoint of nihilism an d humanitarianism.: 這種結局與周氏的虛無主義和個人主義的人道主義世界觀密不可分.

5. Nihilism rejects any objective basis for society and its morality.: 虛無主義拒絕任何客觀依據,為社會和道德準則.