Existentialism Vs Nihilism Vs Absurdism II Difference Between Existentialism, Nihilism and Absurdism

 

EXISTENTIALISM

NIHILISM

ABSURDISM

1. EXISTENTIALISM: (Little hope)

Life is inherently meaningless unless you create and give meaning to it.

Who am I?

From where did I come?

Where will I go?

What is the meaning of my life?

Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, the French writers,

Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher,

Samuel Beckett, an Irish author

 

2. NIHILISM: (No hope)

Life is inherently meaningless; nothing can change its meaningless status. So there is no point trying to fetch meaning out of life.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Søren Kierkegaard

Ivan Turgenev

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

3. ABSURDISM: (Carefree approach)

Life is inherently meaningless and nothing matters, including the fact that nothing matters. So defy life by living the way you want to.

Samuel Beckett

Eugene Ionesco

Jean Genet

Harold Pinter

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