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A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.
The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him.
Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him:
"Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain."
But what if we could turn this same approach to nihilism?
In 2003 we set up a new team to research solutions for nihilism.
Nihilism comes from the Latin nihil, or nothing.
It is the belief that values are falsely invented.
The term nihilism can also be used to describe the idea that life, or the world, has no distinct meaning or purpose.
Nihilists believe that there are no true morals.
The term was made popular by Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons.
Bazarov, the hero in it, was a nihilist.
Most people think of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche when they think about nihilism, because he said that morals were invented. Even people who know about Nietzsche call him a nihilist But in his books, Nietzsche said that people needed to create their own morals to get over nihilism. Other than him, very few famous philosophers are nihilists. However, nihilism is still an important topic for students learning all the major philosophy categories.
Apart from Nietzsche, a popular text which draws heavily on nihilism is the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Nihilism is associated with postmodernism.
Ideas like these will solve nihilism, and I believe within the next 10 years.
So what gives me hope for the future of nihilism is this:
Self-help is the best help.
If we can learn that, we can solve this.
Thank you.
