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I don't think it's appropriate to consider "Existentialists" or "Absurdists" like Sartre or Camus as nihilists. Rather, they developed techniques specifically
by enkid 5y ago
I don't think it's appropriate to consider "Existentialists" or "Absurdists" like Sartre or Camus as nihilists. Rather, they developed techniques specifically to avoid nihilism even if life does not have a prescribed meaning by making your own.
- guerrilla 5y agoIt depends on your definition. They certainly did not believe in any objective or universal values or meaning to life. Your criticism applies to most hedonists, moral relativists, etc. too.
- enkid 5y agoI don't think the common understanding of either moral relativism or hedonism categorizes them as nihilism. For example, hedonism is just a specific form of consequentialism.