I was mulling over the different approaches different people take to living, but slowly realized that most approaches can be used by both those who see meaning and those who don’t. Nihilism was the only approach that I could think of which seems exclusively aligned with an unambiguous lack of meaning.
Meaning or No Meaning | No Meaning |
---|---|
Hedonist | Nihilist |
Aesthete | |
Discoverer | |
Creator | |
Progenitor | |
Protector | |
Physician | |
Destroyer |
I realize that this is all Philosophy 101 stuff, but I’m trying to work these things out for myself from first principles.