What does nihilator mean?
Nihilator means (philosophy) That which nihilates..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(philosophy) That which nihilates..
Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.
Every ego is engaged in “a desperate effort to be” - desperate because we are all nihilators defending our fragile project of being, which necessarily involves mutual destruction: […]
[…] French Resistance left him with a feeling of human solidarity quite absent from his earlier works, in which other people are most characteristically represented as Heidegger’s ‘They’ -- obstacles to our discovery of ourselves, nihilators of our possibilities.
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Nihilator means (philosophy) That which nihilates..
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Being alone can nihilate without itself being nihilated. In the act of nihilation the nihilator remains.
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